CVE-2006-4146

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-08-31
Bugzilla:
203875: CVE-2006-4146 GDB buffer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-4146 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Updates to address this issue are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4:
https://rhn.redhat.com/cve/CVE-2006-4146.html

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

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (gdb) RHSA-2007:0469 2007-06-07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (gdb) RHSA-2007:0229 2007-05-01

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