Detections
Analytics

Oracle Linux 9 : gdb (ELSA-2026-73426)

high Nessus Plugin ID 362417

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-73426 advisory.

 [16.3-3.1.0.1]
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9-u8.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> Oracle history:
 March-06-2026 Claudiu Zissulescu <[email protected]> - 16.3-3.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9-u8.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> August-05-2025 Claudiu Zissulescu <[email protected]> - 16.3-2.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9-u7.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> June-24-2025 Claudiu Zissulescu <[email protected]> - 14.2-4.1.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9-u6.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> February-18-2025 Claudiu Zissulescu <[email protected]> - 14.2-4.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9-u5.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> October-22-2024 Claudiu Zissulescu <[email protected]> - 14.2-3.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9-u4.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> April-30-2024 Cupertino Miranda <[email protected]> - 10.2-13.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9-u4.
 Reviewed-by: David Faust <[email protected]> March-28-2024 Cupertino Miranda <[email protected]> - 10.2-13.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9-u4 beta.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> December-14-2023 Cupertino Miranda <[email protected]> - 10.2-11.1.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> December-14-2023 Cupertino Miranda <[email protected]> - 10.2-11.0.3
 - OraBug 35407694 Interrupting pstack with ctrl+c prompts for a kill even if process is not spawned by gdb Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> December-13-2023 Cupertino Miranda <[email protected]> - 10.2-11.0.2
 - OraBug 36055910 Support RDTSCP in RECORD/REPLAY in interpreter mode (record full) Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> October-4-2023 Cupertino Miranda <[email protected]> - 10.2-11.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> October-10-2022 Weimin Pan <[email protected]> - 10.2-10.0.2
 - Add missing patch gdb-orclbz33627477-redirect-output-crash.patch.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> September-28-2022 Weimin Pan <[email protected]> - 10.2-10.0.1
 - Forward-port CTF patches.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> April-26-2022 Weimin Pan <[email protected]> - 10.2-9.0.1
 - Take out fix for (RHBZ 1935517) which disables libctf.
 - Forward-port CTF patches.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]>

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-73426.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 362417

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-73426.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.29

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-13732

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb-gdbserver, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb-headless, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb-minimal, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-13732