RHEA-2015:0875 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated devtoolset-3-elfutils packages that fix several bugs and add various
enhancements are now available for Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.1.

Description

The elfutils packages contain a number of utility programs and libraries related
to the creation and maintenance of executable code. The devtoolset-3-elfutils
packages provide the Red Hat Developer Toolset version of elfutils.

The devtoolset-3-elfutils packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.161,
which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
Among others:

• The following changes have been introduced in the libdw library: The

"dwarf_cu_getdwarf" and "dwarf_cu_die" functions have been added; the
non-existing "DW_TAG_mutable_type" attribute has been removed from the dwarf.h
header file; libdw now supports handling LZMA-compressed kernel modules
(.ko.xz).

• The eu-unstrip utility has a new option, "-F" or "--force", for combining

files with non-matching ELF headers.

• Support for the ELF v2 application binary interface on Red Hat Enterprise

Linux for POWER (little endian) has been added.

(BZ#1163979)

Users of devtoolset-3-elfutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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