Bug 2234010

Summary:	CVE-2022-44840 gdb: binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf.c [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	gdb	Assignee:	Kevin Buettner <kevinb>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	38	CC:	ahajkova, fweimer, guinevere, jan, keiths, kevinb, mcermak, mkolar
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Last Closed:	2023-08-24 03:00:18 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2234004

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-08-23 21:14:30 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234004

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-08-23 21:14:33 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=low

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2234004,2234010

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Kevin Buettner 2023-08-24 03:00:18 UTC

This is not a GDB bug. The upstream fix patched binutils/dwarf.c, which GDB does not use in any way.

Closing as NOTABUG.