Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2013:0044 - gdb bug fix update

Synopsis

gdb bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated gdb packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The gdb packages provide the GNU Debugger (GDB) to debug 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 bugs:

  • Prior to this update, a bit position within a structure overflowed when a member of this structure was at an offset greater than 256 MB and GDB failed to access the position. This update modifies the underlying code to ensure that GDB can access such positions. (BZ#795423)

  • Prior to this update, GDB incorrectly tried to load virtual dynamic shared objects (vDSO) from the file system when using the "solib-absolute-prefix" command. As a consequence, vDSOs could abort. This update modifies the underlying code to handle vDSOs as expected. (BZ#818343)

  • Prior to this update, GDB failed to debug XLF generated code due to incorrect symbol handling. As a consequence, the type of variable in modules was not found. This update modifies the underlying code to handle symbols correctly and the type of a variable is found. (BZ#823789)

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

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-45.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • gdb-7.0.1-45.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • gdb-7.0.1-45.el5.s390x.rpm
  • gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-45.el5.i386.rpm
  • gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-45.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • gdb-7.0.1-45.el5.src.rpm
  • gdb-7.0.1-45.el5.i386.rpm
  • gdb-7.0.1-45.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-45.el5.s390x.rpm
  • gdb-debuginfo-7.0.1-45.el5.ia64.rpm
  • gdb-7.0.1-45.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information