Security
Security
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU debugger, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code.
| Package | sys-devel/gdb on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 6.3-r3 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 6.3-r3 |
gdb is the GNU project's debugger, facilitating the analysis and debugging of applications. The BFD library provides a uniform method of accessing a variety of object file formats.
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered an integer overflow in the BFD library, resulting in a heap overflow. A review also showed that by default, gdb insecurely sources initialisation files from the working directory.
Successful exploitation would result in the execution of arbitrary code on loading a specially crafted object file or the execution of arbitrary commands.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All gdb users should upgrade to the latest stable version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-devel/gdb-6.3-r3"