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Oracle Linux 8 : gdb (ELSA-2026-73425)

high Nessus Plugin ID 377125

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-73425 advisory.

 [8.2-20.1.0.1]
 - Import gdb-8.2-20.1.el8_10 and forward-port Oracle changes.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> Oracle history:
 Thu Dec 7 2023 Cupertino Miranda <[email protected]> - 8.2-20.0.2
 - OraBug 36055910 Support RDTSCP in RECORD/REPLAY in interpreter mode (record full) Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> Wed Oct 4 2023 Cupertino Miranda <[email protected]> - 8.2-20.0.1
 - Forward-port Oracle patches.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> Wed Sep 28 2022 Weimin Pan <[email protected]> - 8.2-19.0.1
 - Forward-port CTF patches.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> Mon May 2 2022 Weimin Pan <[email protected]> - 8.2-18.0.3
 - Take out '#ifnarch i386' for CTF patch.
 Fri Apr 29 2022 Nick Alcock <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> - 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 <[email protected]> Sun Nov 14 2021 Alex Burmashev <[email protected]> 8.2-16.0.4
 - Do not pack *ctf* libs [Orabug: 33565602] Mon Nov 8 2021 Weimin Pan <[email protected]> - 8.2-16.0.3
 - Fix Orabug 33501071 Fri Oct 15 2021 Weimin Pan <[email protected]> - 8.2-16.0.2
 - Add gdb-ctf-fix-enum-type.patch Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> Tue Oct 5 2021 Weimin Pan <[email protected]> - 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 <[email protected]>

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

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-2026-73425.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 377125

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-73425.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2026

Updated: 11/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, 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:8, 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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-13732