CVE-2006-4146

Description

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10463

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204841

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4283

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3433

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-356-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19802

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0469.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0229.html

http://www.osvdb.org/28318

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htm

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017138

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/27706

http://secunia.com/advisories/26909

http://secunia.com/advisories/25934

http://secunia.com/advisories/25894

http://secunia.com/advisories/25632

http://secunia.com/advisories/25098

http://secunia.com/advisories/22662

http://secunia.com/advisories/22205

http://secunia.com/advisories/21713

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3