The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities. Security Fix: * Developer environment: Unicode"s bidirectional override characters can cause trojan source attacks The following changes were introduced in binutils in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters: Tools which display names or strings have a new command line option --unicode / -U which controls how Unicode characters are handled.