CVE-2006-4146

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Gdb
Vendor
CVE Published:
31 August 2006

Summary

Buffer overflow in the (1) DWARF (dwarfread.c) and (2) DWARF2 (dwarf2read.c) debugging code in GNU Debugger (GDB) 6.5 allows user-assisted attackers, or restricted users, to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file with a location block (DW_FORM_block) that contains a large number of operations.

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-S...
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4283
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http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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