Issued:

2015-07-22

Updated:

2015-07-22

RHEA-2015:1302 - elfutils bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

elfutils bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

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

Updated Packages

• elfutils-0.161-3.el6.i686.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.161-3.el6.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.161-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-0.161-3.el6.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.161-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.161-3.el6.ppc.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.161-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.161-3.el6.s390.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.161-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.161-3.el6.s390.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.161-3.el6.ppc.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.161-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.161-3.el6.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.161-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.161-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.161-3.el6.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.161-3.el6.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.161-3.el6.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.161-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.161-3.el6.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.161-3.el6.i686.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.161-3.el6.i686.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.161-3.el6.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.161-3.el6.ppc.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.161-3.el6.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.161-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• elfutils-0.161-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• elfutils-0.161-3.el6.src.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.161-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.161-3.el6.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.161-3.el6.s390.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.161-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-0.161-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.161-3.el6.s390.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.161-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.161-3.el6.i686.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.161-3.el6.ppc.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.161-3.el6.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.161-3.el6.ppc.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.161-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.161-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.161-3.el6.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.161-3.el6.s390.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1167724

CVEs

• CVE-2014-9447

References

(none)

Additional information

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