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Scientific Linux: gdb Low Severity Security Fix for Buffer Overflow

Calendar May 09, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory update buffer overflow bug fix low severity gdb Scientific Linux
Low: gdb security and bug fix update 
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:13:54 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA for SL4 gdb i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific 

Synopsis: Low: gdb security and bug fix update
Issue date: 2007-05-01
CVE Names: CVE-2006-4146

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

SRPMS:
 	gdb-6.3.0.0-1.143.el4.src.rpm

i386:
 	gdb-6.3.0.0-1.143.el4.i386.rpm

x86_64:
 	gdb-6.3.0.0-1.143.el4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson