[Medium] Patch gdb for CVE-2025-7546

[akhila-guruju]

Merge Checklist

All boxes should be checked before merging the PR (just tick any boxes which don't apply to this PR)

• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
• All package sources are available
• cgmanifest files are up-to-date and sorted (./cgmanifest.json, ./toolkit/scripts/toolchain/cgmanifest.json, .github/workflows/cgmanifest.json)
• LICENSE-MAP files are up-to-date (./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/data/licenses.json, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSES-MAP.md, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSE-EXCEPTIONS.PHOTON)
• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

Patch gdb for CVE-2025-7546
Astrolabe Patch Reference: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=41461010eb7c79fee7a9d5f6209accdaac66cc6b navigates to https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=41461010eb7c79fee7a9d5f6209accdaac66cc6b
Upstream Patch modified: Yes

• deleted code in upstream patch is not present in bfd/elf.c file as version is older. Only newly added code is present.

Change Log

• new file: SPECS/gdb/CVE-2025-7546.patch
• modified: SPECS/gdb/gdb.spec

Does this affect the toolchain?

NO

Links to CVEs

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/ CVE-2025-7546

Test Methodology

• Local Build
• patch applies cleanly
• libctf/testsuite is failing before applying the patch.
  gdb-11.2-6.cm2.src.rpm.test.log
  gdb-11.2-7.cm2.src.rpm.test.log

[cyberbandya007]

Buddy Build - https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_build/results?buildId=879763&view=results

[cyberbandya007]

@akhila-guruju There are test failures in buddy build. Can you check and address them? https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_build/results?buildId=879763&view=logs&j=bac295d9-f2e0-5165-e63e-e76f383e1a27&t=11f3656e-1674-514e-6598-6d74b5d3f57a&l=39

[akhila-guruju]

libctf/testsuite was removed to fix tests as these were removed in gdb azl3.0. Taken reference from gdb PR in 3.0 - #10169