RHEA-2024:8869 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for gcc-toolset-14-binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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).

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• [RFE] Add gcc-toolset-14 as a software collection to RHEL 8[binutils component] (JIRA:RHEL-30410)
• rebuild gcc-toolset-14-binutils by gcc-toolset-14-gcc [RHEL-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-53519)
• script error on installing gcc-toolset-14-binutils-gprofng [GTS-14/RHEL-8] (JIRA:RHEL-54575)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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