Bug 171840

Summary: CAN-2005-1704 Integer overflow in gdb
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Component: gdbAssignee: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact:
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Version: 4CC: cagney, jakub, jjohnstn
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Fixed In Version: FC5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Jeff Johnston 2005-10-26 21:56:42 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #171825 +++

Integer overflow in the BFD library for gdb before 6.3 allows
attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted object file that
specifies a large number of section headers, leading to a heap-based
buffer overflow.


More information is available in the gentoo bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91398

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-- Additional comment from jjohnstn on 2005-10-26 16:56 EST --
Fixed in gdb-6.1post-1.20040607.43.0.1

Comment 1 Jeff Johnston 2005-10-26 21:59:13 UTC
Comment above is regarding FC-3 gdb release containing fix.

FC-4 fix is release gdb-6.3.0.0-1.84

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2005-10-27 17:08:42 UTC
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

gdb-6.3.0.0-1.84 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-09-22 02:11:19 UTC
Closing bugs in MODIFIED state from prior Fedora releases. If this bug persists
in a current Fedora release (such as Fedora Core 5 or later), please reopen and
set the version appropriately.