gdb: Multiple vulnerabilities

gdb: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU debugger, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code. gdb 2005-05-20 2006-05-22 88398 91398 91654 local 6.3-r3 6.3-r3

gdb is the GNU project's debugger, facilitating the analysis and debugging of applications. The BFD library provides a uniform method of accessing a variety of object file formats.

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered an integer overflow in the BFD library, resulting in a heap overflow. A review also showed that by default, gdb insecurely sources initialisation files from the working directory.

Successful exploitation would result in the execution of arbitrary code on loading a specially crafted object file or the execution of arbitrary commands.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All gdb users should upgrade to the latest stable version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-devel/gdb-6.3-r3"

CVE-2005-1704 CVE-2005-1705 jaervosz r2d2 jaervosz