[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: binutils-2.31.1-17.fc29
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-ba3cbcfd20
2019-02-02 03:34:29.460572
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Name : binutils
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 2.31.1
Release : 17.fc29
URL : https://sourceware.org/binutils
Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities
Description :
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for
creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU
assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the
GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for
copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying
information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for
the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed
information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes
of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings
from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for
converting addresses to file and line).
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Update Information:
Bug fixes for binutils including one that is preventing Yocot/oe-core from
building properly
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Jan 30 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com> - 2.31.1-17
- Fix the assembler's check that the output file is not also one of the input files.
(#1660279)
* Thu Jan 3 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com> - 2.31.1-16
- Fix a memory leak reading minisymbols. (#1661535)
* Wed Nov 28 2018 Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com> - 2.31.1-15
- Stop gold from warning about discard version information unless explicitly requested.
(#1654153)
* Thu Nov 15 2018 Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com> - 2.31.1-14
- Remove debugging fprintf statement accidentally left in patch. (#1645828)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1546608 - ld does not merge .gnu.build.attributes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546608
[ 2 ] Bug #1515934 - Mir build fails on ppc64 when LTO is enabled
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1515934
[ 3 ] Bug #1660279 - as from binutils 2.31.1 may fail at some certain condition
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660279
[ 4 ] Bug #1646536 - CVE-2018-18700 binutils: Recursive Stack Overflow within function
d_name, d_encoding, and d_local_name in cp-demangle.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646536
[ 5 ] Bug #1553086 - gdb: warning: Loadable section ".note.gnu.property"
outside of ELF segments
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553086
[ 6 ] Bug #1483604 - CVE-2017-12448 CVE-2017-12449 CVE-2017-12450 CVE-2017-12451
CVE-2017-12452 CVE-2017-12453 CVE-2017-12454 CVE-2017-12455 CVE-2017-12456 CVE-2017-12457
CVE-2017-12458 CVE-2017-12459 CVE-2017-13710 CVE-2017-13716 binutils: various flaws
[fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483604
[ 7 ] Bug #1639969 - After recent update, gold linker crashes while building chromium
with fedora build flags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1639969
[ 8 ] Bug #1626622 - readelf --unwind not supported
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626622
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