16758 : GDB Initialisation File Sourcing Insecure File Handling
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Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date
2005-04-08	2005-05-20

Description

GDB, the GNU debugger contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to unauthorized privileges. The issue is triggered when the GDB reads the .gdbinit file from the current working directory. If a privileged user can be tricked to run GDB in another user's directory, and the current working directory contains a malicious .gdbinit, an attacker could gain escalated privileges.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 6.3-r3 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability.

Products

GNU

GDB

6.3

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 15449 15467 15554 17072 17356 18506
Related OSVDB ID: 16757
CVE ID: 2005-1705 (see also: NVD)
Other Solution URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=55721&action=view
Generic Exploit URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88398
Other Advisory URL: http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:095
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-15.xml
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=1908
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-015.htm
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-135-1
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2005:709

Tools & Filters

	18404 19994 20059 20526

Credit

Tavis Ormandy - tavisogoogle.com - Google Information Security Team

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-25 | Disagree?

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