USN-4336-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in GNU. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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