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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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CVE-2006-4146 Detail

Current 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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/01/2009)

Updates to address this issue are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4: https://rhn.redhat.com/cve/CVE-2006-4146.html Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was not vulnerable to this issue as it contained a backported patch.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc CVE, MITRE
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21713 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22205 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22662 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25632 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25894 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25934 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26909 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27706 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017138 CVE, MITRE
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htm CVE, MITRE
http://www.osvdb.org/28318 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0229.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0469.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19802 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-356-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3433 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4283 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204841 CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10463 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-4146
NVD Published Date:
08/31/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE