Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it?

From	Andreas <goesele@hfph.mwn.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.security
Subject	Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it?
Date	2019-12-31 03:10 +0100
Message-ID	<zjf8R-fn-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Hi,

there is no security support for binutils in debian stable
(buster). Given the importance of binutils this seems to me to be a real
problem.

I searched quite some time for reasons for this strange fact, but while
I found many references to the fact, I didn't find any explanation for
the reasons for it. Can anybody explain to me, why binutils isn't
covered or point me to a source giving an authoritative explanation?

More importantly: What are we as debian users meant to do given the
lacking security support? What is the best way to supplant the lacking
security support?

Thanks a lot in advance

Andreas

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Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Andreas <goesele@hfph.mwn.de> - 2019-12-31 03:10 +0100
  Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2019-12-31 10:50 +0100
    Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-01-01 03:20 +0100
      Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2020-01-01 10:40 +0100
        Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? PJ <peer@pjk.de> - 2020-01-01 11:00 +0100
          Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2020-01-01 11:10 +0100
        Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2020-01-01 13:40 +0100
        Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-01-02 02:40 +0100
      Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2020-01-01 14:10 +0100
        Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2020-01-01 14:20 +0100
        Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-01-01 14:20 +0100
          Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2020-01-01 14:30 +0100
        Re: Why no security support for binutils? What to do about it? Daniel Reichelt <debian@nachtgeist.net> - 2020-01-01 14:50 +0100

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