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>> GNU Project Debugger (GDB) DWARF Handling Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Title : GNU Project Debugger (GDB) DWARF Handling Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-3433
CVE ID : CVE-2006-4146
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-09-01
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A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Project Debugger (GDB), which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to buffer overflow errors in the "dwarfread.c" and "dwarf2read.c" scripts when processing malformed DWARF or DWARF2 information, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into debugging a specially crafted and malicious binary or core file.
Affected Products
GNU Project Debugger (GDB) version 6.5 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3433
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204845
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Will Drewry
ChangeLog
2006-09-01 : Initial release
Vulnerability Management
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