CVE-2006-4146 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in the (1) DWARF (dwarfread.c) and (2) DWARF2 (dwarf2read.c) debugging code in GNU Debugger (GDB) 6.5 allows user-assisted attackers or restricted users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file with a location block (DW_FORM_block) that contains a large number of operations.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.html http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html http://secunia.com/advisories/21713 http://secunia.com/advisories/22205 http://secunia.com/advisories/22662 http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 http://secunia.com/advisories/25632 http://secunia.com/advisories/25894 http://secunia.com/advisories/25934 http://secunia.com/advisories/26909 http://secunia.com/advisories/27706 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1017138 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htm http://www.osvdb.org/28318 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0229.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0469.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19802 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-356-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3433 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4283 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204841 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10463