RHBA-2011:0614 - Bug Fix Advisory

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 614443 - hmaccalc not working on ppc64 in non-FIPS mode
• BZ - 633448 - [6.1 FEAT] makedumpfile support - convert Linux on z dumps to ELF - binutils part
• BZ - 663587 - [6.1 FEAT] Large-TOC support
• BZ - 679435 - The first section in the PT_DYNAMIC segment is not the .dynamic section
• BZ - 680143 - [abrt] binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.17.el6: gldelf_i386_before_allocation: Process /usr/bin/ld was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 697703 - [RHEL6.1] ld segmentation fault while compiling kernel

CVEs

(none)

References

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