Issued:

2012-05-16

Updated:

2012-05-16

RHBA-2012:0672 - binutils bug fix update

Synopsis

binutils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated binutils packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The binutils packages are a collection of programming tools for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Due to instability in calculating the program header size, the GNU linker could terminate unexpectedly with the "looping in map_segments" error message. With this update, the linker has been modified to properly handle changes in the size of the segment map, which prevents the instability and the linker no longer crashes in this scenario. (BZ#818708)

All users of binutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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

Updated Packages

• binutils-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.ppc.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.x86_64.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.ia64.rpm
• binutils-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.ia64.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.ia64.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.ppc64.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.s390x.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.x86_64.rpm
• binutils-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.src.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.s390x.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.ppc.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.s390.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.ppc.rpm
• binutils-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.ppc64.rpm
• binutils-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.s390x.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
• binutils-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.x86_64.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3.s390.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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