Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1341730
Rebase the binutils to release 2.25.1
Last modified: 2016-11-03 21:55:53 EDT
Description of problem: The version of binutils currently used in RHEL 7.3 is 2.23. This is quite an old version and in particular suffers from a lot of potential security problems due to buffer overruns and memory leaks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.23.52.0.1-56 How reproducible: Examine version number in the rpm. Actual results: 2.23 Expected results: 2.25.1 Additional info: Rebasing to a newer version of binutils has the potential to cause new, unexpected failures in other packages. But we have been doing a lot of local testing and nothing has shown up so far.
Verified for build binutils-2.25.1-20.base.el7.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2265.html