{"id":"SUSE-SU-2021:3637-1","summary":"Security update for binutils","details":"This update for binutils fixes the following issues:\n\n- For compatibility on old code stream that expect 'brcl 0,label' to\n  not be disassembled as 'jgnop label' on s390x.  (bsc#1192267)\n  This reverts IBM zSeries HLASM support for now.\n- Fixed that ppc64 optflags did not enable LTO (bsc#1188941).\n- Fix empty man-pages from broken release tarball\n- Fixed a memory corruption with rpath option (bsc#1191473).\n\n- Fixed slow performance of stripping some binaries (bsc#1183909).\n\nSecurity issue fixed:\n\n- CVE-2021-20294: Fixed out-of-bounds write in print_dynamic_symbol in readelf 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