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CVE-2006-4146

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.1 Published: 2006-08-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the (1) DWARF (dwarfread.c) and (2) DWARF2 (dwarf2read.c) debugging code in GNU Debugger (GDB) 6.5 allows user-assisted attackers, or restricted users, to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file with a location block (DW_FORM_block) that contains a large number of operations.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Gdb

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References