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Enterprise Linux 4: ELSA-2007-0229 Low Severity: GDB Exec Issue

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 4 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: . Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2007-0229 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0229.html The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 4 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: i386: gdb-6.3.0.0-1.143.el4.i386.rpm x86_64: gdb-6.3.0.0-1.143.el4.x86_64.rpm SRPMS: https://oss.oracle.com:443/el4/SRPMS-updates/gdb-6.3.0.0-1.143.el4.src.rpm Description of changes: [ 6.3.0.0-1.143] - Fix unhandled race cases of exec() from threaded program (BZ 202689). - Add testcase for exec() from threaded program (BZ 202689). [6.3.0.0-1.142] - Fixed zombie threads regression from the stale threads crash fix (BZ 195429). [ 6.3.0.0-1.141] - Fix bogus 0x0 unwind of the thread's topmost function clone(3) (BZ 216506). [ 6.3.0.0-1.140] - Fix deadlock accessing invalid address; for corrupted backtraces (BZ 210614). [6.3.0.0-1.139] - Fix a race in Patch168 occasionally leaving processes stopped (BZ 202705). [6.3.0.0-1.138] - Fix `gcore' command for 32bit inferiors on 64bit hosts. [ 6.3.0.0-1.137] - Support TLS symbols for -lpthread programs w/o -debuginfo package (BZ 185337). - Suggest TLS `errno' resolving by hand if no -lpthread was found (BZ 185337). [6.3.0.0-1.136] - Do not step into asynchronously invoked signal handlers (BZ 202712). [6.3.0.0-1.135] - Avoid false warning on shared objects bfd close on ia64 (BZ 200402). - Bugfix segv on the source display by ^X 1 (fixes Patch130, BZ 200048). - Bugfix object names completion (fixes Patch116, BZ 193763). - Avoid crash of 'info threads' if stale threads exist (BZ 195429). - Fix occasional failure to load shared libraries (BZ 202682). - Fix exec() from threaded program, partial CVS backport (BZ 202689). [6.3.0.0-1.134] - Fix bug in patch for CVE-2006-4146. (BZ 203876) [6.3.0.0-1.133] - BuildReq flex, bison, sharutils and, on multilib systems, 32-bit glibc-devel. - Add slash between dir and file names in edit command (BZ 192261, BZ 199156). - Avoid overflows and underflows in dwarf expression computation stack. . Corporate Unix Safety Notification CUSA-2010-0155 for strace mitigates data inconsistency issues and enhances platform reliability.. Enterprise Linux Updates, GDB Security Fix, Security Advisories, Linux RPM Updates. . Severity: Low. LinuxSecurity.com Team

May 17, 2007 •Low Oracle