Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1274 - binutils bug fix update

Synopsis

binutils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated binutils packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The binutils packages provide a set 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).

This update fixes the following bug:

  • On IBM System z, the linker sometimes generated undesirable runtime relocations for thread-local-storage variables. These undesirable relocations could under certain circumstances cause execmod AVC errors. This bug has been fixed, and AVC errors are no longer returned in this scenario. (BZ#1175590)

Users of binutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.i686.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.i686.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.i686.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.ppc.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.s390.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.ppc.rpm
  • binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.src.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.s390.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.2-5.43.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information