diff --git a/qiling/debugger/gdb/gdb.py b/qiling/debugger/gdb/gdb.py
index c6f591a5..77c0623f 100644
--- a/qiling/debugger/gdb/gdb.py
+++ b/qiling/debugger/gdb/gdb.py
@@ -261,8 +261,9 @@ class QlGdb(QlDebugger):
                     # emulation stopped because it hit a breakpoint
                     reply = f'S{SIGTRAP:02x}'
                 else:
-                    # emulation has completed successfully
-                    reply = f'W{self.ql.os.exit_code:02x}'
+                    # emulation has completed successfully. note bare-metal os layers
+                    # do not have an exit code (issue #1276)
+                    reply = f'W{getattr(self.ql.os, "exit_code", 0):02x}'
 
             return reply
 
@@ -672,10 +673,17 @@ class QlGdb(QlDebugger):
                     for grp in groups:
                         cmd, *tid = grp.split(':', maxsplit=1)
 
-                        if cmd in ('c', f'C{SIGTRAP:02x}'):
+                        # 'C sig' and 'S sig' resume or step while delivering a signal
+                        # to the guest. we do not deliver signals, so the signal value
+                        # is ignored and the action is carried out as a plain resume or
+                        # step. matching only 'C05' and 'S05' here made clients that
+                        # resume with any other pending signal (e.g. 'S0f' after a stop
+                        # reply we sent) receive an empty reply and bail out with
+                        # 'Invalid remote reply' (issue #1377)
+                        if cmd[:1] in ('c', 'C'):
                             return handle_c('')
 
-                        elif cmd in ('s', f'S{SIGTRAP:02x}'):
+                        elif cmd[:1] in ('s', 'S'):
                             return handle_s('')
 
                         # FIXME: not sure how to handle multiple command
@@ -704,7 +712,7 @@ class QlGdb(QlDebugger):
             # when the step carried pc all the way to the emulation exit point.
             if getattr(self.ql.arch, 'effective_pc', self.ql.arch.regs.arch_pc) == self.gdb.exit_point:
                 # program terminated; report its exit code
-                return f'W{self.ql.os.exit_code:02x}'
+                return f'W{getattr(self.ql.os, "exit_code", 0):02x}'
 
             # otherwise, this is just single stepping
             return f'S{SIGTRAP:02x}'
diff --git a/tests/test_debugger.py b/tests/test_debugger.py
index 6219cca4..17ae7b8d 100644
--- a/tests/test_debugger.py
+++ b/tests/test_debugger.py
@@ -260,6 +260,55 @@ class DebuggerTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         self.assertEqual(replies, ['S05', 'S05', 'S05'])
 
+    def test_gdbdebug_vcont_signal_actions(self):
+        # regression for issue #1377: a client resuming with a pending signal sends
+        # a 'vCont;S<sig>' or 'vCont;C<sig>' action (e.g. 'S0f' after a stop-reply we
+        # sent). the stub only recognized 'S05' and 'C05', replied empty to anything
+        # else, and the client bailed out with 'Invalid remote reply'. any signal must
+        # be accepted and carried out as a plain step or resume.
+        ql = Qiling(["../examples/rootfs/x8664_linux/bin/x8664_hello"], "../examples/rootfs/x8664_linux", verbose=QL_VERBOSE.OFF)
+        ql.debugger = 'gdb:127.0.0.1:9995'
+
+        replies = []
+
+        def gdb_test_client():
+            # yield to allow ql to launch its gdbserver
+            time.sleep(1.337 * 2)
+
+            with ReadingGdbClient('127.0.0.1', 9995) as client:
+                client.send('qSupported:multiprocess+;swbreak+;hwbreak+;vContSupported+;xmlRegisters=i386')
+                client.read_packet()
+                client.send('QStartNoAckMode')
+                client.read_packet()
+
+                client.send('vCont?')
+                replies.append(client.read_packet())
+
+                # step while delivering SIGTERM; this is the packet reported in #1377
+                client.send('vCont;S0f:p1.1;c:p1.-1')
+                replies.append(client.read_packet())
+
+                # resume while delivering SIGTERM; runs the guest to completion
+                client.send('vCont;C0f:p1.1')
+                replies.append(client.read_packet())
+
+                client.send('k')
+
+        thread = threading.Thread(target=gdb_test_client, daemon=True)
+        thread.start()
+
+        ql.run()
+        thread.join(timeout=30)
+        del ql
+
+        self.assertEqual(replies[0], 'vCont;c;C;s;S')
+
+        # the signalled step is an ordinary step: SIGTRAP, not an empty reply
+        self.assertEqual(replies[1], 'S05')
+
+        # the signalled resume ran to termination and reported an exit code
+        self.assertTrue(replies[2].startswith('W'), f'unexpected reply to signalled resume: {replies[2]!r}')
+
     def test_gdbdebug_async_interrupt(self):
         # a free-running guest could not be interrupted at all: the stub is blocked
         # inside emu_start while the target runs, so the bare '\x03' break byte a