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GDB Integer Overflow and Insecure Initialisation File Handling
Secunia Advisory: SA15449
Release Date: 2005-05-23
Last Update: 2005-05-26
Popularity: 9,997 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:GDB 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Tavis Ormandy has reported two vulnerabilities in GDB, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

1) By default, the .gdbinit file is read from the current working directory, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges by tricking a user into running GDB in a directory containing a malicious .gdbinit file.

2) An integer overflow in the BFD library can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into loading a specially crafted binary in GDB.

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