RHEA-2015:1302 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated elfutils packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The elfutils packages contain a number of utility programs and libraries related
to the creation and maintenance of executable code.

The elfutils packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.161, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. The
most notable new features are:

• The eu-stack utility supports showing inlined frames and it is now able to

produce backtraces even for processes that might have some of their on-disk
libraries updated or deleted.

• Improved DWZ compressed DWARF multi-file support with new functions,

"dwarf_getalt" and "dwarf_setalt", has been introduced.

• Support for ARM 64-bit architecture and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for POWER,

little endian has been added.

• The libdw library now supports LZMA-compressed (.ko.xz) kernel modules.
• Support for ".debug_macro" has been added; new functions has been introduced:

"dwarf_getmacros_off", "dwarf_macro_getsrcfiles", "dwarf_macro_getparamcnt", and
"dwarf_macro_param".

• New GNU extensions to the DWARF format are now recognized.
• New functions have been added to the libdw library: "dwarf_peel_type",

"dwarf_cu_getdwarf", "dwarf_cu_die", "dwelf_elf_gnu_debuglink",
"dwelf_dwarf_gnu_debugaltlink", "dwelf_elf_gnu_build_id".

(BZ#1167724)

Users of elfutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1167724 - Request to rebase elfutils version that is higher than 0.158

CVEs

• CVE-2014-9447

References

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