USN-356-1: gdb vulnerability
2 October 2006
gdb vulnerability
Releases
Details
Will Drewry, of the Google Security Team, discovered buffer overflows
in GDB's DWARF processing. This would allow an attacker to execute
arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into using
GDB to load an executable that contained malicious debugging
information.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06
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gdb
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6.4-1ubuntu5.1
Ubuntu 5.10
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gdb
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6.3-6ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 5.04
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gdb
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6.3-5ubuntu1.2
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.