USN-3367-1: gdb vulnerabilities
USN-3367-1: gdb vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3367-1 26th July, 2017 gdb vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in gdb. Software description gdb – GNU Debugger Details Hanno Böck discovered that gdb incorrectly handled certain malformed AOUTheaders in PE executables. If a user or automated system were tricked intoprocessing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use thisissue to cause gdb to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possiblyexecute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.(CVE-2014-8501) It was discovered that gdb incorrectly handled printing bad bytes in IntelHex objects. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing aspecially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to causegdb to crash, resulting in [ more… ]