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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-ccce2763b0 moderate: retsnoop kernel debugging

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The updated Fedora retsnoop resolves kernel errors, enhances debugging, and tackles security vulnerabilities in dependencies.
retsnoop is BPF-based tool that is meant to help debugging kernel issues

Summary

retsnoop is BPF-based tool that is meant to help debugging kernel issues. It

allows to capture call stacks of kernel functions that return errors (NULL or

-Exxx) and emits every such detected call stack, along with the captured

results.

Update Information:

Rebuild affected applications with ruzstd v0.7.3 to address RUSTSEC-2024-0400.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora RUSTSEC BPF tool kernel debugging

Change Log

* Sun Dec 1 2024 Fabio Valentini - 0.10.1-3 - Rebuild for ruzstd 0.7.3 (RUSTSEC-2024-0400) * Mon Oct 21 2024 Michel Lind - 0.10.1-2 - Port from memmap to memmap2

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2329481 - rust-ruzstd: `ruzstd` uninit and out-of-bounds memory reads [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2329481

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-ccce2763b0' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Name: retsnoop
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 0.10.1
Release: 3.fc40
URL: https://github.com/anakryiko/retsnoop
Summary: A tool for investigating kernel error call stacks

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora RUSTSEC BPF tool kernel debugging

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