[platform-testers] coreutils and libbfd vulnerability?

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

This news story appears today:

        Vulnerability in widely used 'strings' utility could spell trouble for
        malware analysts

        Extracting text strings from binary files is not as safe as most
        people think, a security researcher found

        
http://www.itworld.com/article/2838985/vulnerability-in-widely-used-strings-utility-could-spell-trouble-for-malware-analysts.html

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