[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: gdb-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5

Jan Kratochvil jkratoch at redhat.com
Fri Sep 15 01:47:33 UTC 2006


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-975
2006-09-14
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : gdb
Version     : 6.3.0.0
Release     : 1.134.fc5
Summary     : A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages.
Description :
GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++,
Java, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion
and printing their data.

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Update Information:

This is a security update for CVE-2006-4146.
In addition other bugfixes are listed below.

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* Mon Sep  4 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> - 6.3.0.0-1.134
- Fix bug in patch for CVE-2006-4146. (BZ 203881)
* Wed Aug 23 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> - 6.3.0.0-1.133
- BuildReq flex, bison, sharutils, prelink 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.
* Thu Jun 15 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> - 6.3.0.0-1.132
- Additional patch for BZ 175083, to cope with waitpid setting status
even when returning zero.
* Wed May 31 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> - 6.3.0.0-1.131
- Require gettext at build time.  (BZ193366)
* Sat May 27 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> - 6.3.0.0-1.130
- Rewrite patch for BZ 175270, BZ 175083 so as to catch the exception
earlier.
- Remove too-fragile testcases from patches for CFA value and "S"
augmentation.
* Wed May 17 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> - 6.3.0.0-1.129
- Add not-automatically-generated file to fopen64 patch (BZ 191948).
* Fri Apr 14 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> - 6.3.0.0-1.128
- Avoid race conditions caused by exceptions messing with signal masks.
(BZ 175270, BZ 175083, maybe BZ 172938).
- Hardcode /bin and /usr/bin paths into gstack (BZ 179829, BZ 190548).
- Build in a subdir of the source tree instead of in a sibling directory.
- Switch to versioning scheme that uses the same base revision number
for all OSes, and uses a suffix to tell the builds apart and ensure
upgradability.
* Thu Apr 13 2006 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com>    - 6.3.0.0-1.127
- Bump up release number.
* Thu Apr 13 2006 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com>    - 6.3.0.0-1.123
- Use fopen64 where available.  Fixes BZ 178796, BZ 190547.
- Use bigger numbers than int.  Fixes BZ 171783, BZ 179096.

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

1eeda5c5174ad188c73d5f5ce017eb1a12520fd7  SRPMS/gdb-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5.src.rpm
1eeda5c5174ad188c73d5f5ce017eb1a12520fd7  noarch/gdb-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5.src.rpm
5d99d2860d0cefd574a01b22f2ead9a3c4fc8416  ppc/gdb-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5.ppc.rpm
d094f93b7ee30f634b0ea98a76d4e9fae88abaaf  ppc/debug/gdb-debuginfo-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5.ppc.rpm
a354c88136cfe456ea25f4ba42bba86834d509a2  x86_64/debug/gdb-debuginfo-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5.x86_64.rpm
41ca56ed4037370e632ac578784bbcf1bc196b94  x86_64/gdb-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5.x86_64.rpm
865e4b01209a8da182c95fd44b26f9516401e99e  i386/debug/gdb-debuginfo-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5.i386.rpm
8da9ffe0b29f2a6ef68fea792d661fa85cf50e72  i386/gdb-6.3.0.0-1.134.fc5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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