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CVE-2011-4355

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-03-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• GNU gdb: through 7.4.1; 4.18, 5.0, 5.0.92, 5.0.93, 5.1, 5.1.1 (+22)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0522.html
• http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/NEWS?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
• http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00559.html
• http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00202.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028191
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0522.html
• http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/NEWS?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
• http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00559.html
• http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00202.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028191

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