Security update for gdb

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:0319-1
Rating: moderate
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Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2017-16829 ( SUSE ): 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2017-16829 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-7208 ( SUSE ): 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2018-7208 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2022-48064 ( SUSE ): 0.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2022-48064 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and contains one feature can now be installed.

Description:

This update for gdb fixes the following issues:

  • Drop libdebuginfod1 BuildRequires/Recommends. The former isn't needed because there's a build requirement on libdebuginfod-devel already, which will pull the shared library. And the latter, because it's bogus since RPM auto generated dependency will take care of that requirement.

gdb was released in 13.2:

  • This version of GDB includes the following changes and enhancements:

  • Support for the following new targets has been added in both GDB and GDBserver:

    * GNU/Linux/LoongArch (gdbserver) loongarch*-*-linux*
* GNU/Linux/CSKY (gdbserver) csky*-*linux*

  • The Windows native target now supports target async.

  • Floating-point support has now been added on LoongArch GNU/Linux.

  • New commands:

    * set print nibbles [on|off]
* show print nibbles

* This controls whether the 'print/t' command will display binary values in groups of four bits, known as "nibbles". The default is 'off'.
  Various styling-related commands. See the gdb/NEWS file for more details.
  Various maintenance commands. These are normally aimed at GDB experts or developers. See the gdb/NEWS file for more details.

  • Python API improvements:

      * New Python API for instruction disassembly.

  * The new attribute 'locations' of gdb.Breakpoint returns a list of gdb.BreakpointLocation objects specifying the locations where the breakpoint is inserted into the debuggee.
  * New Python type gdb.BreakpointLocation.
  * New function gdb.format_address(ADDRESS, PROGSPACE, ARCHITECTURE) that formats ADDRESS as 'address '
  * New function gdb.current_language that returns the name of the current language. Unlike gdb.parameter('language'), this will never return 'auto'.
  * New function gdb.print_options that returns a dictionary of the prevailing print options, in the form accepted by gdb.Value.format_string.
  * New method gdb.Frame.language that returns the name of the frame's language.
  * gdb.Value.format_string now uses the format provided by 'print', if it is called during a 'print' or other similar operation.
  * gdb.Value.format_string now accepts the 'summary' keyword. This can be used to request a shorter representation of a value, the way that 'set print frame-arguments scalars' does.
  * The gdb.register_window_type method now restricts the set of acceptable window names. The first character of a window's name must start with a character in the set [a-zA-Z], every subsequent character of a window's name must be in the set [-_.a-zA-Z0-9].

    • GDB/MI changes:

      • MI version 1 is deprecated, and will be removed in GDB 14.
      • The async record stating the stopped reason 'breakpoint-hit' now contains an optional field locno.

  • Miscellaneous improvements:

      * gdb now supports zstd compressed debug sections (ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD) for ELF.
  * New convenience variable $_inferior_thread_count contains the number of live threads in the current inferior.
  * New convenience variables $_hit_bpnum and $_hit_locno, set to the breakpoint number and the breakpoint location number of the breakpoint last hit.
  * The "info breakpoints" now displays enabled breakpoint locations of disabled breakpoints as in the "y-" state.
  * The format of 'disassemble /r' and 'record instruction-history /r' has changed to match the layout of GNU objdump when disassembling.

  * A new format "/b" has been introduce to provide the old behavior of "/r".
  * The TUI no longer styles the source and assembly code highlighted by the current position indicator by default. You can however re-enable styling using the new "set style tui-current-position" command.
  * It is now possible to use the "document" command to document user-defined commands.
  * Support for memory tag data for AArch64 MTE.

  • Support Removal notices:

      * DBX mode has been removed.
  * Support for building against Python version 2 has been removed. It is now only possible to build GDB against Python 3.
  * Support for the following commands has been removed:

  * set debug aix-solib on|off
  * show debug aix-solib
  * set debug solib-frv on|off
  * show debug solib-frv

  * Use the "set/show debug solib" commands instead.

See the NEWS file for a more complete and detailed list of what this release includes.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2024-319=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-319=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-319=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-319=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • gdb-debugsource-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdbserver-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdb-debuginfo-13.2-2.23.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (s390x)
    • gdb-debuginfo-32bit-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdbserver-32bit-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdbserver-debuginfo-32bit-13.2-2.23.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • gdb-debugsource-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdb-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdb-debuginfo-13.2-2.23.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • gdb-debugsource-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdb-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdb-debuginfo-13.2-2.23.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • gdb-debugsource-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdb-13.2-2.23.1
    • gdb-debuginfo-13.2-2.23.1

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