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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-f91531043d Moderate: Elfutils Buffer Over-Read

DWARF5 and split dwarf, including GNU DebugFission, support.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2018-f91531043d 2018-06-08 13:09:48.199521 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : elfutils Product : Fedora 28 Version : 0.171 Release : 1.fc28 URL : https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ Summary : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle ELF files and DWARF data Description : Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including stack (to show backtraces), nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files) and elfcompress (to compress or decompress ELF sections). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: DWARF5 and split dwarf, including GNU DebugFission, support. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * Fri Jun 1 2018 Mark Wielaard - 0.171-1 - New upstream release. - DWARF5 and split dwarf, including GNU DebugFission, support. - readelf: Handle all new DWARF5 sections. --debug-dump=info+ will show split unit DIEs when found. --dwarf-skeleton can be used when inspecting a .dwo file. Recognizes GNU locviews with --debug-dump=loc. - libdw: New functions dwarf_die_addr_die, dwarf_get_units, dwarf_getabbrevattr_data and dwarf_cu_info. libdw will now try to resolve the alt file on first use when not set yet with dwarf_set_alt. dwarf_aggregate_size() now works with multi-dimensional arrays. - libdwfl: Use process_vm_readv when available instead of ptrace. - backends: Add a RISC-V backend. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug #1559243 -CVE-2018-8769 elfutils: buffer over-read in ebldynamictagname.c:ebl_dynamic_tag_name() allows for denial of service [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1559243 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-f91531043d' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. To unsubscribe send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./message/EP43TAFBHQYHEVFEGFYOXUFAUCL3CQVB/ . Recent elfutils patch resolves stack overflow issues and incorporates DWARF5 features in Fedora 28 for improved performance.. Elfutils Update, Fedora Security, Buffer Over-Read, GNU DebugFission. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jun 08, 2018 •Important Fedora