1667086 - ORA-20003 - Specified bug number (<number>) does not exist.

Various functions that call Oracle supplied PL/SQL packages (e.g. DBMS_STATS) terminate with an ORA-20003 error. You encounter errors similar to:

Database error 20003 at EXE
> ORA-20003: Specified bug number (<number>) does not
> exist#ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 14457#ORA-06512:
> at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 14477#ORA-06512: at line 1

or

'BEGIN DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS (OWNNAME => '"<owner_name>"', TABNAME =>
'"<table_name>"', ESTIMATE_PERCENT => 1, METHOD_OPT => 'FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE 1',
DEGREE => NULL, CASCADE => TRUE, NO_INVALIDATE => FALSE); END;'
ORA-20003: Specified bug number (9196440) does not exist
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 15181
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 15203
ORA-06512: at line 1

or

BR0301E SQL error -20003 in thread 4 at location stats_tab_collect-21,
[...]
BR0886E Collecting statistics failed for table SAPSR3.<TABLE_NAME>

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