The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update: MDKSA-2005:215 - Updated binutils packages fix vulnerabilities for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:215
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : binutils
Date : November 23, 2005
Affected: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 2.1, Corporate 3.0,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

Integer overflows in various applications in the binutils package
may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a carefully crafted
object file.

The updated packages have been patched to help address these problems.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-1704
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 10.1:
708b5397a0f8d66ff7825a87109cee13 10.1/RPMS/binutils-2.15.90.0.3-1.2.101mdk.i586.rpm
cfe970075dabce10d2ea4d8e4fa67aaf 10.1/RPMS/libbinutils2-2.15.90.0.3-1.2.101mdk.i586.rpm
2aa1168d9d0b6c603da3acbdea22fc9c 10.1/RPMS/libbinutils2-devel-2.15.90.0.3-1.2.101mdk.i586.rpm
1f5e832b6ed31c56b3def12e375610da 10.1/SRPMS/binutils-2.15.90.0.3-1.2.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.1/X86_64:
e700db501ac6f8f9b2d417c080ab5eea x86_64/10.1/RPMS/binutils-2.15.90.0.3-1.2.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
6abac53d844407ef121691b636b20e1b x86_64/10.1/RPMS/lib64binutils2-2.15.90.0.3-1.2.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
b6f861d559d57c8c5a92e777815e4c73 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/lib64binutils2-devel-2.15.90.0.3-1.2.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
1f5e832b6ed31c56b3def12e375610da x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/binutils-2.15.90.0.3-1.2.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.2:
c2a2cfc84982642148278a522ae20398 10.2/RPMS/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-6.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
e026dde17010169f948ffcc7f0f84196 10.2/RPMS/libbinutils2-2.15.92.0.2-6.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
2d0f051e47a0bd56f6472a182d552064 10.2/RPMS/libbinutils2-devel-2.15.92.0.2-6.2.102mdk.i586.rpm
f22b295f02e30b0eb4d12411621c0404 10.2/SRPMS/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-6.2.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.2/X86_64:
dc5b9b89c6fb480e4e22cd78aa377a54 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-6.2.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
29fbcbe86219392c6e821d8551f918b0 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/lib64binutils2-2.15.92.0.2-6.2.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
5cab7d1ab727c5965faf90c14c16ab88 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/lib64binutils2-devel-2.15.92.0.2-6.2.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
f22b295f02e30b0eb4d12411621c0404 x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-6.2.102mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 2.1:
4fc16a664f25b5b7ce57938d5b9aa6e1 corporate/2.1/RPMS/binutils-2.13.90.0.10-1.2.C21mdk.i586.rpm
18c1b567a556d8f3f8e8333dca45c971 corporate/2.1/RPMS/libbinutils2-2.13.90.0.10-1.2.C21mdk.i586.rpm
c08be5df6b56231ca1c4436a805d6b81 corporate/2.1/RPMS/libbinutils2-devel-2.13.90.0.10-1.2.C21mdk.i586.rpm
dbc46ffe4e6f710d355796211bdff83c corporate/2.1/SRPMS/binutils-2.13.90.0.10-1.2.C21mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 2.1/X86_64:
1561acb857e03d7a167af0945efe7650 x86_64/corporate/2.1/RPMS/binutils-2.13.90.0.10-1.2.C21mdk.x86_64.rpm
e683343df371de35d026cbdba7dbc898 x86_64/corporate/2.1/RPMS/libbinutils2-2.13.90.0.10-1.2.C21mdk.x86_64.rpm
9c53bf3a8c5a303c2f97d06216dbf30c x86_64/corporate/2.1/RPMS/libbinutils2-devel-2.13.90.0.10-1.2.C21mdk.x86_64.rpm
dbc46ffe4e6f710d355796211bdff83c x86_64/corporate/2.1/SRPMS/binutils-2.13.90.0.10-1.2.C21mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0:
ef926843f1e4141cecbb5a77015d5092 corporate/3.0/RPMS/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
494a84d96695e9b3d5fe98dec372cb56 corporate/3.0/RPMS/libbinutils2-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
0deb09a9ee7a41172fbf242cf40b9f10 corporate/3.0/RPMS/libbinutils2-devel-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
e57a1ef31c7d86749bb93f2c5632c168 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
c999b0c9026df1c47e2ecfafb3396973 x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
b2eacb13d69dc3a3f24ba0d466a0a7d2 x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/lib64binutils2-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
603859440efa6b87a0b66954e01977b9 x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/lib64binutils2-devel-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
e57a1ef31c7d86749bb93f2c5632c168 x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.C30mdk.src.rpm

Multi Network Firewall 2.0:
9eab0b74b586e443a0e533af8cca5fa4 mnf/2.0/RPMS/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.M20mdk.i586.rpm
93047308f094f014b37aee12534c43df mnf/2.0/RPMS/libbinutils2-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.M20mdk.i586.rpm
0ccb5c7d9a158dbce80de957aa7b0b04 mnf/2.0/SRPMS/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-2.2.M20mdk.src.rpm
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