CVE-2011-4355
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-03-04 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 00:09
Severity ?
Summary
GNU Project Debugger (GDB) before 7.5, when .debug_gdb_scripts is defined, automatically loads certain files from the current working directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via crafted files such as Python scripts.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0522.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/NEWS?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00559.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00202.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028191
Impacted products
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