| Description: | GDB, the GNU debugger, allows debugging of programs written in C, C++, and other languages by executing them in a controlled fashion and then printing their data.
Various buffer overflows and underflows were found in the DWARF expression computation stack in GDB. If an attacker could trick a user into loading an executable containing malicious debugging information into GDB, they may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. (CVE-2006-4146)
This updated package also addresses the following issues:
Support on 64-bit hosts shared libraries debuginfo larger than 2GB.
Fix a race occasionally leaving the detached processes stopped.
Fix segmentation fault on the source display by ^X 1.
Fix a crash on an opaque type dereference.
All users of gdb should upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to resolve these issues.
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