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openSUSE: 2019:2493-1 Moderate: gdb Buffer Overflow Risk Mitigation

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An Ubuntu security patch announces a significant remedy for a glibc overflow vulnerability, enhancing overall system security.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.

Description

This update for gdb fixes the following issues:

Update to gdb 8.3.1: (jsc#ECO-368)

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2019-1010180: Fixed a potential buffer overflow when loading ELF

sections larger than the file. (bsc#1142772)

Upgrade libipt from v2.0 to v2.0.1.

- Enable librpm for version > librpm.so.3 [bsc#1145692]:

* Allow any librpm.so.x

* Add %build test to check for "zypper install " message

- Copy gdbinit from fedora master @ 25caf28. Add gdbinit.without-python,

and use it for --without=python.

Rebase to 8.3 release (as in fedora 30 @ 1e222a3).

* DWARF index cache: GDB can now automatically save indices of DWARF

symbols on disk to speed up further loading of the same binaries.

* Ada task switching is now supported on aarch64-elf targets when

debugging a program using the Ravenscar Profile.

* Terminal styling is now available for the CLI and the TUI.

* Removed support for old demangling styles arm, edg, gnu,...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2493=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

gdb-8.3.1-lp150.2.10.1

gdb-debuginfo-8.3.1-lp150.2.10.1

gdb-debugsource-8.3.1-lp150.2.10.1

gdb-testresults-8.3.1-lp150.2.10.1

gdbserver-8.3.1-lp150.2.10.1

gdbserver-debuginfo-8.3.1-lp150.2.10.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1010180.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1115034

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1142772

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1145692

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2493-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

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