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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4146

Original release date:08/31/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.1 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/01/2009): Updates to address this issue are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4: https://rhn.redhat.com/cve/CVE-2006-4146.html Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was not vulnerable to this issue as it contained a backported patch.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204841

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204841

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-356-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-356-1

External Source: BID

Name: 19802

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19802

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0469

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0469.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0229

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0229.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 28318

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/28318

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3229

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3229

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-4283

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/4283

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3433

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3433

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htm

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017138

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017138

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200711-23

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27706

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27706

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26909

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26909

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25934

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25934

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25894

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25894

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25632

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25632

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25098

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25098

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22662

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22662

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22205

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22205

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21713

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21713

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20070920 VMSA-2007-0006 Critical security updates for all supported versions of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, and VMware Player

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2006-10-31

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669

External Source: SGI

Name: 20070602-01-P

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc