CVE-2006-4146

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

GNU gdb: 6.5

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21713
http://secunia.com/advisories/22205
http://secunia.com/advisories/22662
http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
http://secunia.com/advisories/25632
http://secunia.com/advisories/25894
http://secunia.com/advisories/25934
http://secunia.com/advisories/26909

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