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Scientific Linux SL3: CVE-2006-4146 Low Severity GDB Buffer Overflow

Calendar Jun 15, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory buffer overflow security fix low severity gdb update Scientific Linux
Low: gdb security and bug fix update 
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:33:06 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for on SL3,x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Low: gdb security and bug fix update
Issue date:	2007-06-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2006-4146

Various buffer overflows and underflows were found in the DWARF expression
computation stack in GDB. If an attacker could trick a user into loading
an executable containing malicious debugging information into GDB, they may
be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
(CVE-2006-4146)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
	gdb-6.3.0.0-1.138.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
	gdb-6.3.0.0-1.138.el3.i386.rpm
	gdb-6.3.0.0-1.138.el3.x86_64.rpm
 x86_64:
	gdb-6.3.0.0-1.138.el3.i386.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson