- Issued:
- 2007-11-07
- Updated:
- 2007-11-07
RHBA-2007:0554 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
gdb bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated gdb package that fixes various bugs is now available.
Description
GDB, the GNU debugger, allows debugging of programs written in C, C++, and
other languages by executing them in a controlled fashion and then printing
their data.
This updated package addresses the following issues:
- Fix attaching to already stopped (by SIGSTOP) processes.
- Fix an unexploitable crash on gcore of a specially crafted command.
- Support on 64-bit hosts shared libraries debuginfo larger than 2GB.
- Fix running the gcore command with inaccessible terminal.
- Fix backtrace entries for overlapping functions such as nanosleep ().
- Fix backtrace showing excessive zero PC entries.
- Fix a crash on debugging older GCJ (GNU Java) binaries.
- Support stepping over PowerPC atomic instructions (used for threads).
- Fix gcore command for PowerPC 32-bit processes on 64-bit hosts.
- Support PowerPC 128-bit long double data type printing.
- Support disassembling of IBM PowerPC Power6 instructions including the
DFP (Decimal Floating Point) instruction set.
All users of gdb should upgrade to this updated package, which contains
backported patches to resolve these issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied. Use Red Hat
Network to download and update your packages. To launch the Red Hat
Update Agent, use the following command:
up2date
For information on how to install packages manually, refer to the
following Web page for the System Administration or Customization
guide specific to your system:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 221048 - GDB intermittently fails with gcj-generated (BC-ABI) .sos.
- BZ - 233853 - attach will start to hang on SIGSTOPped processes
- BZ - 238352 - Fix backtrace for overlapping functions like nanosleep(3)
- BZ - 245394 - [RHEL5] Broken %changelog entry version: 6.6-21, should be 6.5-21
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
gdb-6.5-25.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 022b8aae052e9407e894b45df2e383d1371c7424d52ba034d8aa5ec907c15b90 |
x86_64 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c08a5ba4dfeb4b68d194d07f280921dae138bfd50a44acf21be5aa4d217caa0e |
ia64 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1eaeebbccb9c2e4763e6baa01506d1cc32a10a8b228c716cc24ab51c38ab7bef |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 91caa3347e538fef1354c38add835be900bf341fcf4aaeb3ae5efa5df94966a4 |
i386 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1eaeebbccb9c2e4763e6baa01506d1cc32a10a8b228c716cc24ab51c38ab7bef |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
gdb-6.5-25.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 022b8aae052e9407e894b45df2e383d1371c7424d52ba034d8aa5ec907c15b90 |
x86_64 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c08a5ba4dfeb4b68d194d07f280921dae138bfd50a44acf21be5aa4d217caa0e |
i386 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1eaeebbccb9c2e4763e6baa01506d1cc32a10a8b228c716cc24ab51c38ab7bef |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
gdb-6.5-25.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 022b8aae052e9407e894b45df2e383d1371c7424d52ba034d8aa5ec907c15b90 |
x86_64 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c08a5ba4dfeb4b68d194d07f280921dae138bfd50a44acf21be5aa4d217caa0e |
i386 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1eaeebbccb9c2e4763e6baa01506d1cc32a10a8b228c716cc24ab51c38ab7bef |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
gdb-6.5-25.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 022b8aae052e9407e894b45df2e383d1371c7424d52ba034d8aa5ec907c15b90 |
s390x | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 1938971c256b0084a972860cddd0757fdbbb12e86a8525be03078b4d0a4ad528 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
gdb-6.5-25.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 022b8aae052e9407e894b45df2e383d1371c7424d52ba034d8aa5ec907c15b90 |
ppc | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 5050424af69726162af38b1e6944dd7993e141e7d59ab4270e204bed2581440a |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
gdb-6.5-25.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 022b8aae052e9407e894b45df2e383d1371c7424d52ba034d8aa5ec907c15b90 |
x86_64 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c08a5ba4dfeb4b68d194d07f280921dae138bfd50a44acf21be5aa4d217caa0e |
i386 | |
gdb-6.5-25.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1eaeebbccb9c2e4763e6baa01506d1cc32a10a8b228c716cc24ab51c38ab7bef |
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