CVE-2006-4146

Published: 31 August 2006

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.

Status

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-356-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4146
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian