Vulnerability CVE-2006-4146

Vulnerability CVE-2006-4146

Published: 2006-08-31 Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
5.1/10	6.4/10	4.9/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	High	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
GNU -> GDB

References:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204841

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4283

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3433

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-356-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19802

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0469.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0229.html

http://www.osvdb.org/28318

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htm

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017138

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/27706

http://secunia.com/advisories/26909

http://secunia.com/advisories/25934

http://secunia.com/advisories/25894

http://secunia.com/advisories/25632

http://secunia.com/advisories/25098

http://secunia.com/advisories/22662

http://secunia.com/advisories/22205

http://secunia.com/advisories/21713

http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10463

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc

Vulnerability CVE-2006-4146

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.

CWE-119

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

5.1/10

6.4/10

4.9/10

Remote

High

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: