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Mageia 9: MGASA-2024-0246 Moderate: GDB Memory Issues and Threats

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to gdb packages resolve significant security concerns associated with vulnerabilities within Mageia. Prompt attention is recommended.
An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package

Summary

An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285) A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972) GNU gdb (GDB) 13.0.50.20220805-git was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the function ada_decode at /gdb/ada-lang.c. (CVE-2023-39128) GNU gdb (GDB) 13.0.50.20220805-git was discovered to contain a heap use after free via the function add_pe_exported_sym() at /gdb/coff-pe-read.c. (CVE-2023-39129) GNU gdb (GDB) 13.0.50.20220805-git was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the function pe_as16() at /gdb/coff-pe-read.c. (CVE-2023-39130)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33319

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6842-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4285

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1972

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-39128

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-39129

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-39130

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/gdb-12.1-7.1.mga9

Publication date: 01 Jul 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0246.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-4285, CVE-2023-1972, CVE-2023-39128, CVE-2023-39129, CVE-2023-39130

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