Issued:
2011-05-19
Updated:
2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0614 - binutils bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

binutils bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated binutils packages that fix bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

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).

These updated binutils packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

  • fix strip to keep the address of an empty section consistent with its offset in the object (BZ#614443)
  • if one of the input files is of a non-ELF format the linker may crash (BZ#680143)
  • fix occasional crash in linker (BZ#697703)

This update also adds these enhancements:

  • add support for the large code model on PowerPC (BZ#663587)
  • add support for ELF core dump notes sections for extra s390 registers (BZ#633448)
  • add support for the new instructions in the System z196 processor (BZ#631540)
  • add support for ELF objects with more then 65535 program headers (BZ#578661)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated binutils packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.src.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.i686.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.ppc.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.s390.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.i686.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.ppc.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.i686.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.s390.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.20.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information