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4.9. binutils

Updated binutils packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
The binutils packages are a collection of programming tools for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats.

Bug Fix

BZ#818708
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.
All users of binutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.