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GDB "DWARF" Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21713
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Release Date:
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2006-09-01
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | GDB 6.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-4146 (Secunia mirror)
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This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
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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.
Solution:
Do not open untrusted binaries or core files with GDB.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Will Drewry, Google Security Team.
Original Advisory:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204845
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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. GDB Integer Overflow and Insecure Initialisation File Handling
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