Moderate: gdb security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: gdb security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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 impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1684303 - gdb-8.2-5 has troubles with debuginfo files from corosync-3.0.0-2.el8 (x86_64)
• BZ - 1740615 - CVE-2019-1010180 gdb: buffer overflow while opening an ELF for debugging leads to Dos, information dislosure and code execution
• BZ - 1768593 - GDB needs s390x arch43 binutils patches

CVEs

• CVE-2019-1010180

References

• 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