Check the version of binutils

Please Install the Updated Packages.

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), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), 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).

binutils on Fedora 21

Get the installed version with the help of detect NVT and check if the version is vulnerable or not.

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148438.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25