[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/binutils: bump 2.36.x series to 2.36.1

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Feb 7 09:27:59 UTC 2021


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:

 > Release notes:
 >   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.

 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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