diff --git a/profiles/prefix/sunos/solaris/package.mask b/profiles/prefix/sunos/solaris/package.mask
index c794eb9225823..8b7eafcc2520b 100644
--- a/profiles/prefix/sunos/solaris/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/prefix/sunos/solaris/package.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> (12 Nov 2018)
+# this version of binutils produces shared libraries with symbol lookup
+# errors, probably a versioning problem, confirmed on Solaris 10 and
+# OpenIndiana (11)
+=sys-devel/binutils-2.31.1*
+
 # Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> (14 Jan 2014)
 # util-linux has no business on Solaris systems
 sys-apps/util-linux