CVE-2011-4355

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-03-05 21:38:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-03-06 05:00:00

Affected Software

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 4.18

4.18

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 5.0

5.0

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 5.0.92

5.0.92

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 5.0.93

5.0.93

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 5.1

5.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 5.1.1

5.1.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 5.2

5.2

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 5.2.1

5.2.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 5.3

5.3

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.0

6.0

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.1

6.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.1.1

6.1.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.2

6.2

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.2.1

6.2.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.3

6.3

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.4

6.4

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.5

6.5

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.6

6.6

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.7

6.7

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.7.1

6.7.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 6.8

6.8

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 7.0

7.0

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 7.0.1

7.0.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 7.1

7.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 7.2

7.2

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 7.3

7.3

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 7.3.1

7.3.1

GNU GNU Debugger GDB 7.4

7.4

GNU GNU Debugger GDB

References

RHSA-2013:0522

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

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

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

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