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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020-1635-01 Moderate: GDB Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a significant gdb security advisory providing guidance on mitigating buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
An update for gdb is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The GNU Debugger (GDB) allows users to debug programs written in various programming languages including C, C++, and Fortran.
Security Fix(es):
* gdb: buffer overflow while opening an ELF for debugging leads to Dos, information dislosure and code execution (CVE-2019-1010180)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact gdb

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1010180 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: gdb-8.2-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: gdb-8.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm gdb-debuginfo-8.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm gdb-debugsource-8.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm gdb-gdbserver-8.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm gdb-headless-8.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: gdb-doc-8.2-11.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: gdb-8.2-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm gdb-debuginfo-8.2-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm gdb-debugsource-8.2-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm gdb-gdbserver-8.2-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm gdb-headless-8.2-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: gdb-8.2-11.el8.s390x.rpm gdb-debuginfo-8.2-11.el8.s390x.rpm gdb-debugsource-8.2-11.el8.s390x.rpm gdb-gdbserver-8.2-11.el8.s390x.rpm gdb-headless-8.2-11.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gdb-8.2-11.el8.i686.rpm gdb-8.2-11.el8.x86_64.rpm gdb-debuginfo-8.2-11.el8.i686.rpm gdb-debuginfo-8.2-11.el8.x86_64.rpm gdb-debugsource-8.2-11.el8.i686.rpm gdb-debugsource-8.2-11.el8.x86_64.rpm gdb-gdbserver-8.2-11.el8.x86_64.rpm gdb-headless-8.2-11.el8.i686.rpm gdb-headless-8.2-11.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1635-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1635
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for gdb is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact gdb

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1684303 - gdb-8.2-5 has troubles with debuginfo files from corosync-3.0.0-2.el8 (x86_64)

1740615 - CVE-2019-1010180 gdb: buffer overflow while opening an ELF for debugging leads to Dos, information dislosure and code execution

1768593 - GDB needs s390x arch13 binutils patches

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