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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2019:2494-1 Moderate: gdb Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An update for Fedora's clamd addresses a critical vulnerability and introduces essential improvements for enhanced 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,...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow moderate severity gdb openSUSE patch instructions

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2494=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

gdb-8.3.1-lp151.4.3.1

gdb-debuginfo-8.3.1-lp151.4.3.1

gdb-debugsource-8.3.1-lp151.4.3.1

gdb-testresults-8.3.1-lp151.4.3.1

gdbserver-8.3.1-lp151.4.3.1

gdbserver-debuginfo-8.3.1-lp151.4.3.1

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-2019:2494-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow moderate severity gdb openSUSE patch instructions

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