[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
More information about the buildroot
mailing list