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