Advisories » MGASA-2018-0034

Updated gdb packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Jan 2018
Modification date: 03 Jan 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2014-8501 , CVE-2014-9939 , CVE-2016-2226 , CVE-2016-4487 , CVE-2016-4488 , CVE-2016-4489 , CVE-2016-4490 , CVE-2016-4491 , CVE-2016-4492 , CVE-2016-4493 , CVE-2016-6131

Description

Hanno Böck discovered that gdb incorrectly handled certain malformed AOUT
headers in PE executables. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this
issue to cause gdb to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code (CVE-2014-8501).

It was discovered that gdb incorrectly handled printing bad bytes in Intel
Hex objects. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a
specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause
gdb to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2014-9939).

It was discovered that gdb incorrectly handled certain string operations.
If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially
crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause gdb to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code (CVE-2016-2226).

It was discovered that gdb incorrectly handled parsing certain binaries.
If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially
crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause gdb to
crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2016-4487, CVE-2016-4488,
CVE-2016-4489, CVE-2016-4490, CVE-2016-4491, CVE-2016-4492, CVE-2016-4493,
CVE-2016-6131).

References

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