Issued:
2020-05-12
Updated:
2020-05-12

RHBA-2020:2075 - binutils bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

binutils bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

  • binutils: support secondary relocation sections [rhel 7.9] (BZ#1804151)

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • binutils-devel-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.ppc.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.i686.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.i686.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.ppc.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.src.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.s390.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.s390.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-43.base.el7_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information