ELBA-2018-0686

ELBA-2018-0686 - binutils bug fix and enhancement update

Type:	BUG
Impact:	NA
Release Date:	2018-04-16

Description

[2.27-27.base]
- Do enable relro by default for the PowerPC64 architecture.
(#1523946)

[2.27-26.base]
- Fix thinko in post-uninstall section.
(#1520899)

[2.27-25.base]
- Remove man and info files not needed when building without documentation.
(#1530339)

[2.27-24.base]
- Check for the existance of standards.info.gz before attempting to uninstall it.
(#1520899)

[2.27-23.base]
- Do not complain if the standards.info.gz file does not exist when uninstalling.
(#1520899)

[2.27-22.base]
- Do not enable relro by default for the PowerPC64 architecture.
(#1523946)

[2.27-21.base]
- Prevent the PowerPC64 linker from triggering a seg-fault when discarding dynamic sections.
(#1513014)

[2.27-20.base]
- Bump NVR so that the binutils rpms will be rebuilt, since they also have files that contain the offending relocs.
(#1508954)

[2.27-19.base]
- Suppress the generation of R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX, R_X86_64_REX_GETPCRELX and R_386_GOT32X relocations.
(#1506004)

[2.27-18.base]
- Update AArch64 copy reloc patch.
(#1430743)

[2.27-17.base]
- Add LNIA, SCV and RFSCV instructions from Power9.
(#1356856)

[2.27-16.base]
- Fix seg-fault when stripping s390x binaries.
(#14888890)

[2.27-15.base]
- Add support for creating a PT_S390_PGSTE segment in s390 binaries.
(#1485398)

[2.27-14.base]
- Add standards.info file to documentation distributed with the binutils package.
(#1467390)

[2.27-12.base]
- Generate an error when attempting to link non-PIC s390 objects in PIE mode.
(#1406430)

[2.27-11.base]
- Fix generation of dynamic COPY relocs for the AArch64.
(#1452170)

[2.27-10.base]
- Rebase to binutils 2.27
+ Retire: binutils-2.20.51.0.2-ia64-lib64.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.20.51.0.10-copy-osabi.patch
+ Retire: binutils-rh1260158.patch
+ Retire: binutils-rh1300734.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25.1-aarch64-overflow-warnings.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25-aarch64-pr18668.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25.1-aarch64-pagesize.patch
+ Retire: binutils-rh1304451.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25.1-x86-Zepplin.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25.1-power9.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25.1-x86-mwaitx.patch
+ Retire: binutils-rh1162655.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25.1-aarch64-arch-extension.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25.1-s390-z13.patch
+ Retire: binutils-2.25.1-gold-resolving-to-hidden-symbols.patch
- Sync with Pegas 1.1 binutils.
- Import patch to add support for DWARF5 tags.
(#1472955)
- Import patch to fix converting addresses into function names.
(#1465318)(#1452170)
- Add support for ARMv8.2 ISA extensions.
(#1385959)

[2.25.1-33.base]
- Add support for new tags defined by version 5 of the DWARF standard.
(#1472955)

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	sha256	Superseded By Advisory	Channel Label
Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)	binutils-2.27-27.base.el7.src.rpm	1611b74df9bf114d15020391405e8ad03e29aafbddc4235650c993a089037c2a	ELSA-2021-4033	ol7_x86_64_latest
	binutils-2.27-27.base.el7.src.rpm	1611b74df9bf114d15020391405e8ad03e29aafbddc4235650c993a089037c2a	ELSA-2021-4033	ol7_x86_64_u5_base
	binutils-2.27-27.base.el7.x86_64.rpm	3612881d50645bb7a13a46bc03675227bb529ecdcf054e4418628f5bd3a318e4	ELSA-2021-4033	ol7_x86_64_latest
	binutils-2.27-27.base.el7.x86_64.rpm	3612881d50645bb7a13a46bc03675227bb529ecdcf054e4418628f5bd3a318e4	ELSA-2021-4033	ol7_x86_64_u5_base
	binutils-devel-2.27-27.base.el7.i686.rpm	6bd87d0000675f7db1d4524085dff3a48244453eeacfccdd3dee3c383d1f1e19	ELSA-2021-4033	ol7_x86_64_latest
	binutils-devel-2.27-27.base.el7.i686.rpm	6bd87d0000675f7db1d4524085dff3a48244453eeacfccdd3dee3c383d1f1e19	ELSA-2021-4033	ol7_x86_64_u5_base
	binutils-devel-2.27-27.base.el7.x86_64.rpm	5de2944ad9480d5873e9516904512d16b119c68f3cf434c35afb3c72ba28dbf1	ELSA-2021-4033	ol7_x86_64_latest
	binutils-devel-2.27-27.base.el7.x86_64.rpm	5de2944ad9480d5873e9516904512d16b119c68f3cf434c35afb3c72ba28dbf1	ELSA-2021-4033	ol7_x86_64_u5_base

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