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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1705
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CVE-2005-1705

Description:
gdb before 6.3 searches the current working directory to load the .gdbinit configuration file, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as the user running gdb.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA17072
  Secunia Advisory: SA17356
  Secunia Advisory: SA22006015

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-709.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-801.html

MANDRAKE
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:095

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-15.xml

CONFIRM
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88398


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