#4804: binutils-2.36.1
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Reporter: bdubbs | Owner: lfs-book
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 10.1
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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New point version.
We are very sorry to have to report that a problem was found with the
GNU Binutils 2.36 release. It turns out that it contained a small
portion of code that was not covered by an FSF copyright assignment.
So we have created a replacement release - 2.36.1 - with that code
removed.
In addition we found that a fix for a theoretical security
vulnerability[1] was itself broken and could result in the archiver
program "ar" misbehaving. So we have chosen to revert the fix from
the 2.36.1 release whilst the problem is properly resolved.
[1]: CVE 2021-20197: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26945
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