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GDB "DWARF" Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA21713
Release Date: 2006-09-01
Popularity: 11,893 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:GDB 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Will Drewry has reported some vulnerabilities in GDB, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the handling of DWARF or DWARF2 information. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of a user opening a specially crafted binary or core file with GDB.

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