[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: gdb-7.3.50.20110722-16.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6614
2012-04-26 03:06:22
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Name        : gdb
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 7.3.50.20110722
Release     : 16.fc16
URL         : http://gnu.org/software/gdb/
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:

Update "set auto-load" patchset and the --with-auto-load-safe-path setting.

Security fix for loading untrusted inferiors, see "set auto-load".

Security fix for loading untrusted inferiors, see "set auto-load".

Workaround crashes from stale frame_info pointer (BZ 804256).

Security fix for loading untrusted inferiors, see "set auto-load" (BZ 756117).

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 24 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.3.50.20110722-16.fc16
- Update "set auto-load" patchset and the --with-auto-load-safe-path setting.
* Thu Apr 19 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.3.50.20110722-15.fc16
- Security fix for loading untrusted inferiors, see "set auto-load" (BZ 756117).
* Wed Apr  4 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.3.50.20110722-14.fc16
- Workaround crashes from stale frame_info pointer (BZ 804256).
* Sat Mar 17 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.3.50.20110722-13.fc16
- Fix loading of core files without build-ids but with build-ids in executables.
* Thu Mar  1 2012 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat.com> - 7.3.50.20110722-12.fc16
- Fix `corrupt probe' complaint when reading SystemTap probes.
* Tue Nov 29 2011 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.3.50.20110722-11.fc16
- No longer build bundled libstdc++ pretty printers on RHELs >= 7.
* Sat Nov  5 2011 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat.com> - 7.3.50.20110722-10.fc16
- Backport fix for crash in cp_scan_for_anonymous_namespace
  (Aleksandar Ristovski, BZ 750341).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #756117 - CVE-2011-4355 gdb: arbitrary code execution via .debug_gdb_scripts [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=756117
  [ 2 ] Bug #804256 - gdb: until command segfaults in amd64_sigtramp_frame_sniffer
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804256
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