RHSA-2026:99594

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2026-11-12 11:13 - Updated: 2026-11-12 11:38
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: gdb security update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: An update for gdb is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details: The GNU Debugger (GDB) allows users to debug programs written in various programming languages including C, C++, and Fortran. Security Fix(es): * gdb: gdb: Out-of-bounds write in STABS parser read_member_functions() via crafted ELF (CVE-2026-13732) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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A flaw was found in GDB's STABS debug format parser. The read_member_functions() function in gdb/stabsread.c contains a linked list removal bug in the code that separates destructor and non-destructor member functions of C++ classes. The bug causes the destructor entries to remain in the main function list while the list length counter is decremented, resulting in an out-of-bounds write when the function list is copied to its final allocated array. An attacker can craft an ELF binary with malicious .stab and .stabstr sections that triggers this out-of-bounds write when a user opens the file in GDB and performs any symbol-inspection operation such as setting a breakpoint. The inferior process does not need to be executed. Under controlled conditions, this was demonstrated to achieve execution of arbitrary commands within the GDB process.

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.i686 —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.src —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-debuginfo-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.i686 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-debuginfo-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-debugsource-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.i686 —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-debugsource-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-doc-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.noarch —
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-gdbserver-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-headless-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.i686 —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.AUS:gdb-headless-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.i686 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.src —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-debuginfo-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.i686 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-debuginfo-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-debugsource-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.i686 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-debugsource-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-doc-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.noarch —
Vendor Fix fix
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Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-gdbserver-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-headless-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.i686 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.4.0.Z.EUS.EXTENSION:gdb-headless-0:8.2-15.1.el8_4.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix fix
Workaround
Threats
Impact Important

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How durations are calculated

Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

Events included in the timeline

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    Related by attack behaviour

    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.