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Fedora Core 3 2005-497: binutils

Vulnerability Assessment Summary Check for the version of the binutils package Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2005-497 (binutils). 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), 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). * Wed Jun 29 2005 Jakub Jelinek 2.15.92.0.2-5.1 - bfd and readelf robustification (CVE-2005-1704, #158680) - fix buffer overflows in readelf (#149506) Solution : http://www.fedoranews.org/blog/index.php?p=735 Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Tenable Network Security

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