binutils-2.27-28.base.el7.1

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

This update fixes the following bug:

* The "ld" linker based on the BFD library was too restrictive in its handling of a special form of the Load Effective Address (LEA) instruction in the AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures when building a shared library. As a consequence, the linker rejected valid code with an error message about an invalid relocation. The linker has been modified to handle addressing mode correctly. As a result, valid code that uses this instruction is accepted. (BZ#1582602)

Users of binutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.