CVE-2005-1705

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Description

The CVE Program describes this issue as:

gdb before 6.3 searches the current working directory to load the .gdbinit configuration file, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as the user running gdb.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Additional information

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