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🛡️ ALSA-2021:4591 — gcc-toolset-11-annobin-annocheck (CVE-2021-42574)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Moderate: gcc-toolset-11-annobin security update

Annobin provides a compiler plugin to annotate and tools to examine compiled binary files.

Security Fix(es):

  • Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574)

The following changes were introduced in annobin in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters:

This update of annobin adds a new annocheck test to detect the presence of multibyte characters in symbol names.

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

ALSA-2021:4591 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • gcc-toolset-11-annobin-annocheck (fixed in 9.85-1.el8_5.1)
  • gcc-toolset-11-annobin-docs (fixed in 9.85-1.el8_5.1)
  • gcc-toolset-11-annobin-plugin-gcc (fixed in 9.85-1.el8_5.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 November 2021 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

vulners.com (Report)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-11-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gcc-toolset-11-annobin-annocheck — 9.85-1.el8_5.1
gcc-toolset-11-annobin-docs — 9.85-1.el8_5.1
gcc-toolset-11-annobin-plugin-gcc — 9.85-1.el8_5.1

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