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High ELSA-2026-73425 1 CVE

Important: gdb security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Nov 6, 2026 · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Summary

[8.2-20.1.0.1]
- Import gdb-8.2-20.1.el8_10 and forward-port Oracle changes.
Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Oracle history:
Thu Dec 7 2023 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 8.2-20.0.2
- OraBug 36055910 Support RDTSCP in RECORD/REPLAY in interpreter mode (record full)
Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Wed Oct 4 2023 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 8.2-20.0.1
- Forward-port Oracle patches.
Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Wed Sep 28 2022 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> - 8.2-19.0.1
- Forward-port CTF patches.
Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Mon May 2 2022 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> - 8.2-18.0.3
- Take out '#ifnarch i386' for CTF patch.
Fri Apr 29 2022 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> 8.2-18.0.2
- Add missing upstream CTF patches present in OL8 binutils backport;
re-merge into one patch for simplicity
Tue Mar 29 2022 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> - 8.2-18.0.1
- Forward-port 'Fix avx512 -m32 support in gdbserver'
- (Tom de Vries, RH BZ 2011520)
- Forward-port IBM arch14 updates.
(Andreas Krebbel, RHBZ 2012818)
Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Sun Nov 14 2021 Alex Burmashev <alexander.burmashev@oracle.com> 8.2-16.0.4
- Do not pack *ctf* libs [Orabug: 33565602]
Mon Nov 8 2021 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> - 8.2-16.0.3
- Fix Orabug 33501071
Fri Oct 15 2021 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> - 8.2-16.0.2
- Add gdb-ctf-fix-enum-type.patch
Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Tue Oct 5 2021 Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> - 8.2-16.0.1
- Forward-port CTF patches:
gdb-ctf.patch
gdb-ctf-forward-type.patch
gdb-ctf-func-args.patch
gdb-ctf-optout-var.patch
gdb-ctf-prfunc.patch
gdb-ctf-upstream1.patch
Reviewed-by: Elena Zannoni <elena.zannoni@oracle.com>

[8.2-20.1.el8]
- Backport 'Fix out-of-bounds write in read_member_functions'
(Tom de Vries, RHEL-190110)

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 gdb 0:8.2-20.1.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 gdb-doc 0:8.2-20.1.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 gdb-gdbserver 0:8.2-20.1.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 gdb-headless 0:8.2-20.1.0.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1