National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4355

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1028191

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028191

External Source: MLIST

Name: [gdb-patches] 20110506 Re: [RFA] Add $pdir as entry for libthread-db-search-path.

Hyperlink:http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00202.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [gdb-patches] 20110429 Re: [RFA] Add $pdir as entry for libthread-db-search-path.

Hyperlink:http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00559.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/NEWS?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src

Hyperlink:http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/NEWS?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0522

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0522.html