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Old 03-05-2019, 03:51 PM   #1
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Lightbulb binutils! Can we fix this in an educational way?


https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/ibm-...tware-clients/

Binutils is pretty much overal affected by this,
im educating myself in toolchain hardening.
but i want to learn more about the real issue and solution in the most educational way rightnow.
 
Old 03-07-2019, 04:58 AM   #2
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These are bugs and you can find the fixes there too. (at least I checked the first 3 or 4).
 
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The educational way is to grab latest git/development code, check the ChangeLog, and try installing it. You can also check if the bugs have been reported, and what's happening to them.
 
  


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