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Fedora: 2016:7f37d42add Important: Binutils Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora Patch Alert regarding binutils introduces crucial corrections and addresses concerns affecting legacy platforms.
The 4.5.2 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Summary

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).

Update Information:

The 4.5.2 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This build should also boot on some of the i686 systems that would not boot before.

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1328478 - CVE-2016-3955 Kernel: usbip: buffer overflow by trusting length of incoming packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328478 [ 2 ] Bug #1323956 - CVE-2016-3961 xsa174 xen: hugetlbfs use may crash PV Linux guests (XSA-174) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323956

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update binutils' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: binutils
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.26
Release: 18.fc24
URL: Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities

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