[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: elfutils-0.161-2.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-0692
2015-01-14 06:28:51
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Name        : elfutils
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 0.161
Release     : 2.fc21
URL         : https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/
Summary     : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects
Description :
Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including stack (to show
backtraces), nm (for listing symbols from object files), size
(for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file),
strip (for discarding symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file
structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files).

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Update Information:

Update to elfutils 0.161. Security fix for CVE-2014-9447.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 13 2015 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.161-2
- Add elfutils-0.161-ar-long-name.patch (#1181525 CVE-2014-9447)
* Fri Dec 19 2014 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.161-1
- Update to 0.161.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1178888 - CVE-2014-9447 elfutils: directory traversal in read_long_names()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178888
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
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