[ol7_latest] binutils-2.27-41.base.0.3.el7_7.1.x86_64

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).

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• Fri Nov 15 2019 Egeyar Bagcioglu <egeyar.bagcioglu@oracle.com> - 2.27-41.base.0.3.el7_7.1

  - CVE-2018-12207 / Intel SKX102
  - Introduce the following gas options:
    -malign-branch
    -malign-branch-boundary
    -malign-branch-prefix-size
    -mbranches-within-32B-boundaries
  - Lessen the performance hit due to the Mitigation of Intel's JCC Erratum by
    backporting the patch series that teach gas not to place various jump
    instructions at the end of 32 byte boundries or across such boundaries.
  - Prepatory patches:
    binutils-2.31-i386-gas-01-add-.nop-assembler-directive.patch
    binutils-2.31-i386-gas-02-rewrite-NOP-generation.patch
    binutils-2.31-i386-gas-03-insns-exceeding-the-15-byte.patch
    binutils-2.31-i386-gas-04-pass-max_bytes-to-TC_FRAG_INIT.patch
  - Mitigation Patches:
    binutils-2.33-i386-gas-01-add-md_cons_worker.patch
    binutils-2.33-i386-gas-02-add-md_generic_table_relax_frag.patch
    binutils-2.33-i386-gas-03-align-branches-within-a-fixed-boundary.patch
    binutils-2.33-i386-gas-04-add-mbranches-within-32B-boundaries.patch
    binutils-2.33-i386-gas-05-add-tests-for-malign-branch-boundary-and-malign.patch
  - Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>

• Tue Oct 15 2019 EL Errata <el-errata_ww@oracle.com> - 2.27-41.base.0.1.el7_7.1

  - Complete the backport of upstream commit a5def14f1ca70e14d9433cb229c9369fa3051598
    Add a test for R_386_GOT32/R_386_GOT32X IFUNC reloc error
    [Orabug 27930573]
  - Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>

• Thu Sep 26 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.27-41.base.1

  - Stop the BFD library from complaining about multiple reloc sections for the same code section.  (#1755779)

• Mon Apr 15 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.27-41.base

  - Fix up some linker tests that fail because of the R_x86_64_GOTPCRELX patch.  (#1699745)

• Mon Jan 28 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.27-40.base

  - Enable gold for PowerPC and s390x.  (#1670014)

• Mon Jan 14 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.27-39.base

  - Fix a potential illegal memory access triggered by an integer overflow.  (#1665884)

• Tue Jan 08 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.27-38.base

  - Disable optimizations of x06_64 PLT entries.  (#1624779)

• Tue Jan 08 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.27-37.base

  - Add the .attach-to-group pseudo-op to the assembler.  (#1652587)

• Tue Jan 08 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.27-36.base

  - Prevent resource exhaustion attacks on libiberty's name demangling code.  (#1598561)

• Tue Jan 08 2019 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.27-35.base

  - Stop strip crashing when removing .comment sections.  (#1644632)