Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 31, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-4146
CVE-2006-4146
Description
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.
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Affected products
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References
26- bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdPatch
- secunia.com/advisories/21713nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/22205nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/22662nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/25098nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/25632nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/25894nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/25934nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/26909nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/27706nvdVendor Advisory
- patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.ascnvd
- docs.info.apple.com/article.htmlnvd
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.htmlnvd
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.htmlnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xmlnvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htmnvd
- www.osvdb.org/28318nvd
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0229.htmlnvd
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0469.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19802nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-356-1nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3433nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4283nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10463nvd
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