Fedora has released a security patch to correct a vulnerability identified in binutils. This flaw is due to an integer overflow error in the BFD library when handling specially crafted files containing a large number of section headers, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running gdb. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-0639
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2005-06-30 : Initial release
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