[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: elfutils-0.163-1.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-11380
2015-07-13 16:43:01
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Name        : elfutils
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 0.163
Release     : 1.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 0.163. Hardening fixes. Updated eu-addr2line utility. Various bug fixes. Updated translations.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 19 2015 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.163-1
- Update to 0.163
  - Drop elfutils-0.162-ftruncate-allocate.patch
* Tue Jun 16 2015 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.162-2
- Add elfutils-0.162-ftruncate-allocate.patch (#1232206)
* Thu Jun 11 2015 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.162-1
- Update to 0.162 (#1170810, #1139815, #1129756, #1020842)
- Include elfutils/known-dwarf.h
- Drop BuildRequires glibc-headers (#1230468)
- Removed integrated upstream patches:
  - elfutils-0.161-aarch64relro.patch
  - elfutils-0.161-copyreloc.patch
  - elfutils-0.161-addralign.patch
  - elfutils-0.161-ar-long-name.patch
  - elfutils-0.161-formref-type.patch
* Sat May  2 2015 Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> - 0.161-8
- Rebuilt for GCC 5 C++11 ABI change
* Mon Mar 23 2015 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.161-7
- Add elfutils-0.161-aarch64relro.patch (#1201778)
* Mon Mar  9 2015 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.161-6
- Add elfutils-0.161-copyreloc.patch.
* Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas <opensource at till.name> - 0.161-5
- Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code
* Sat Feb  7 2015 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.161-4
- Add elfutils-0.161-addralign.patch (#1189928)
* Thu Feb  5 2015 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 0.161-3
- Add elfutils-0.161-formref-type.patch
* 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 #1232206 - sizeof - kernel core/modules x 10
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232206
  [ 2 ] Bug #1231454 - Updated Polish translation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231454
  [ 3 ] Bug #1230798 - run-elflint-self test failure with 0.162 with --enable-gcov
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230798
  [ 4 ] Bug #1170810 - Fuzzing elfutils -- various badness
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170810
  [ 5 ] Bug #1139815 - Ukrainian translation update
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139815
  [ 6 ] Bug #1129756 - Unwinding core fails in vDSO frame when elf_begin is called with ELF_C_READ
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129756
  [ 7 ] Bug #1020842 - libelf: segment fault on x86-64 while file's bss offset have a large number
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020842
  [ 8 ] Bug #1230468 - BuildRequires on glibc-devel not glibc-headers.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230468
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update elfutils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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