Bug 158684

Summary:	CAN-2005-1705 gdb arbitrary command execution
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	gdb	Assignee:	Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	cagney, jjohnstn, srevivo
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-709	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-05-24 20:09:59 UTC

gdb before 6.3 searches the current working directory to load the
.gdbinit configuration file, which allows local users to execute
arbitrary commands as the user running gdb.

More information can be found in the gentoo BTS:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88398

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-05-24 20:13:39 UTC

This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-07-29 21:06:46 UTC

Has this fix made it into the RHEL3 U6 update?

jakub has these fixes in the binutils update for RHEL3U6 and RHEL4U2, so I
believe even if we're not ready for U6, we can move forward with a patch.

Comment 3 Jeff Johnston 2005-10-04 18:26:35 UTC

This has been fixed in gdb errata gdb-6.3.0.0-0.31.4 and is in the current
releases RHEL3U6 and RHEL4U2.

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 12:41:51 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-709.html