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A binutils security update has been released for Fedora Core 3

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-497
2005-06-29
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : binutils
Version : 2.15.92.0.2

Release : 5.1

Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities.
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), 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).



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* Wed Jun 29 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-5.1

- bfd and readelf robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)
- fix buffer overflows in readelf (#149506)


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

885c40682b5ba144f9d60ca40fff505b SRPMS/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5.1.src.rpm
b9ebf4bd5e3bf0ff0a88aa96070bd79e x86_64/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
d674176fbf47855781693cc831118214 x86_64/debug/binutils-debuginfo-2.15.92.0
.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
441159f32f16de0d5975f41b6208c742 i386/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5.1.i386.rpm
81ae43dce9755fd0a25dbde6a050641d i386/debug/binutils-debuginfo-2.15.92.0.2
-5.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.