Issued:
2011-01-13
Updated:
2011-01-13

RHBA-2011:0145 - gdb bug fix update

Synopsis

gdb bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated gdb packages that resolve an issue are now available.

Description

The GNU debugger, gdb, allows the debugging of programs written in C, C++, and other languages by executing them in a controlled fashion and then printing out their data.

These updated gdb packages fix the following bug:

  • After you issued the command 'info program', GDB could have terminated unexpectedly, because a change of the shared library list corrupted the data in the internal GDB structure 'bpstat'. With this update, the 'bpstat' structure contains after a change in the shared library list the correct data and the command 'info program' works as expected. (BZ#662218)

All users of gdb are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • gdb-7.1-29.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
  • gdb-7.1-29.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • gdb-gdbserver-7.1-29.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • gdb-gdbserver-7.1-29.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
  • gdb-gdbserver-7.1-29.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • gdb-debuginfo-7.1-29.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
  • gdb-debuginfo-7.1-29.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • gdb-gdbserver-7.1-29.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
  • gdb-7.1-29.el6_0.1.src.rpm
  • gdb-debuginfo-7.1-29.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
  • gdb-7.1-29.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • gdb-debuginfo-7.1-29.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • gdb-7.1-29.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information