Redhat has released a security patch to correct two vulnerabilities identified in gdb. The first flaw is due to a heap overflow error in the BFD library that does not properly handle specially crafted files containing a large number of section headers, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running gdb. The second vulnerability is due to a design error when loading the ".gdbinit" configuration file, which may be exploited by local attackers to run arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user invoking gdb. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-0639
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2005-10-18 : Initial release
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