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Re: Security ERRATA for gdb on SL3,x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:43:21 -0500
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Troy Dawson wrote:
> 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
>

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