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Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
MITRE description: 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.
Statement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.