PT-2013-1430 · Gnu+2 · Gdb+2

Jan Kratochvil · Published 2013-02-20 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2011-4355

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Project Debugger (GDB) versions prior to 7.5

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges via crafted files, such as Python scripts, when .debug gdb scripts is defined. This occurs because GDB automatically loads certain files from the current working directory.

Recommendations For versions prior to 7.5, update to version 7.5 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the automatic loading of files from the current working directory when .debug gdb scripts is defined, until a patch is available.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CESA-2013_0522

CVE-2011-4355

RHSA-2013:0522

RHSA-2013_0522

Affected Products

Centos

Gdb

Red Hat

References · 25

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-4355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0522.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4355 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0522.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4355 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4355 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4355 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4355 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-4355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4355 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00202.html · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-March/056247.html · Note
• http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/NEWS?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-February/026787.html · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-February/020097.html · Note