CVE-2011-4355

Public PoC / Exploit

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

GNU Project Debugger (GDB) before 7.5, when .debug_gdb_scripts is defined, automatically loads certain files from the current working directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via crafted files such as Python scripts.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

Affected Products (29)

gnu · gdbvulnerable

References (10)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0522.html

http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/NEWS?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00559.html

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00202.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028191

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0522.html

http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gdb/NEWS?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00559.html

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00202.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028191