CVE-2006-4146
EPSS 1.3%
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.
How to fix CVE-2006-4146
To remediate CVE-2006-4146, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/gdb—upgrade to 7.3-1 or later
Is CVE-2006-4146 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 7.3-1