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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:53:37 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE assigned for gdb: arbitrary code execution via .debug_gdb_scripts
This issue is now public.
gdb: arbitrary code execution via .debug_gdb_scripts
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703238
Vincent Danen
It was discovered [1],[2] the the GNU Debugger (gdb) would load
untrusted files
from the current working directory when .debug_gdb_scripts was defined.
While
this was a design decision, it is an insecure one and users who do not
pre-inspect untrusted files may execute arbitrary code with their
privileges.
[1] http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00559.html
[2] http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00202.html
This issue has been assigned CVE-2011-4355
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-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
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