Issued:

2012-09-12

Updated:

2012-09-12

RHBA-2012:1257 - gdb bug fix update

Synopsis

gdb bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated gdb packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The GNU Debugger (GDB) allows debugging of programs written in C, C++, Java, and other languages by executing them in a controlled fashion and then printing out their data.

This update fixes the following bug:

• When a struct member was at an offset greater than 256 MB, the resulting bit position within the struct overflowed and caused an invalid access by GDB. With this update, the code has been modified to ensure that GDB can access such positions. (BZ#837894)

All users of gdb are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

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.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• gdb-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
• gdb-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
• gdb-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
• gdb-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
• gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
• gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
• gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
• gdb-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.ppc64.rpm
• gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.ppc64.rpm
• gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
• gdb-7.0.1-42.el5_8.1.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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