gdb: CVSS (Max): 3.3

March 28, 2024

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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

ESB-2024.1937
Security update for gdb
28 March 2024

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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: gdb
Publisher: SUSE
Operating System: SUSE
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2022-48064 CVE-2017-16829 CVE-2018-7208

Original Bulletin:
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20240898-1

Comment: CVSS (Max): 3.3 CVE-2018-7208 (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVSS Source: SUSE
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Security update for gdb

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:0898-1
Rating: moderate
o bsc#1068950
o bsc#1081527
References: o bsc#1211052
o jsc#PED-6584

o CVE-2017-16829
Cross-References: o CVE-2018-7208
o CVE-2022-48064

o 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
o 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
o 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
CVSS scores: o 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
o 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
o 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

o Development Tools Module 15-SP5
o openSUSE Leap 15.4
o openSUSE Leap 15.5
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5
o SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4
o SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5
Affected o SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
Products: SP4
o SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SP4
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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

Description:

This update for gdb fixes the following issues:

o 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:

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

o 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*

o The Windows native target now supports target async.

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

o 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.
o 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.

o 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:

o openSUSE Leap 15.4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-2024-898=1
o openSUSE Leap 15.5
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2024-898=1
o Development Tools Module 15-SP5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP5-2024-898=1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2024-898=1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-898=1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLED-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-898=1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-898=1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2024-898=1

Package List:

o openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
gdb-debugsource-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-13.2-150400.15.14.1
o openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586 nosrc)
gdb-testresults-13.2-150400.15.14.4
o openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64_ilp32)
gdb-64bit-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-64bit-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-64bit-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-64bit-13.2-150400.15.14.1
o openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
gdb-debugsource-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-13.2-150400.15.14.1
o openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 nosrc)
gdb-testresults-13.2-150400.15.14.4
o Development Tools Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
gdb-debugsource-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-13.2-150400.15.14.1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 (aarch64
x86_64)
gdb-debugsource-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-13.2-150400.15.14.1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (aarch64
x86_64)
gdb-debugsource-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-13.2-150400.15.14.1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4 (x86_64)
gdb-debugsource-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-13.2-150400.15.14.1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x
x86_64)
gdb-debugsource-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-13.2-150400.15.14.1
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 (ppc64le x86_64)
gdb-debugsource-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdb-debuginfo-13.2-150400.15.14.1
gdbserver-13.2-150400.15.14.1

References:

o https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16829.html
o https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7208.html
o https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48064.html
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1068950
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081527
o https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211052
o https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-6584

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