CVE-2006-4146

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.1 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2006-08-31

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Gdb (Gnu)

References

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.html
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21713
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22205
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22662
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25632
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25894
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25934
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26909
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27706
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017138
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htm
• http://www.osvdb.org/28318
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0229.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0469.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19802
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-356-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3433
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4283
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204841
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10463