[ol7_latest_archive] binutils-2.23.52.0.1-55.el7.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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• Tue Oct 13 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.23.52.0.1-55

  - Add missing delta to patch that fixes parsing corrupted archives.
    (#1162666)

• Wed Jul 29 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 2.23.52.0.1-54

  - Import patch for PR 18270: Create AArch64 GOT entries for local symbols.
    (#1238783)

• Tue Jul 28 2015 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-51

  - Fix incorrectly generated binaries and DSOs on PPC platforms.
    (#1247126)

• Mon Jun 29 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-50

  - Fix memory corruption parsing corrupt archives.
    (#1162666)

• Mon Jun 29 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-49

  - Fix directory traversal vulnerability.
    (#1162655)

• Mon Jun 29 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-48

  - Fix stack overflow in SREC parser.
    (#1162621)

• Mon Jun 29 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-47

  - Fix stack overflow whilst parsing a corrupt iHex file.
    (#1162607)

• Mon Jun 29 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-46

  - Fix out of bounds memory accesses when parsing corrupt PE binaries.
    (#1162594, #1162570)

• Mon Jun 29 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-45

  - Change strings program to default to -a.  Fix problems parsing
    files containg corrupt ELF group sections.  (#1157276)

• Tue Jun 23 2015 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-44

  - Avoid reading beyond function boundary when disassembling.
    (#1060282)
  
  - For binary ouput, we don't have an ELF bfd output so can't access
    elf_elfheader.  (#1226864)