CVE-2005-1705

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-1705
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-24 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-11 01:30:00 UTC
Descriptiongdb before 6.3 searches the current working directory to load the .gdbinit configuration file, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as the user running gdb.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Gdb All r2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - Fedora update for gdb SECUNIA secunia.com
Gentoo Bug 88398 - sys-devel/gdb: default config, potential security problem? CONFIRM bugs.gentoo.org
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- gdb: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Avaya gdb Integer Overflow and Insecure Initialisation File Handling SECUNIA secunia.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva MANDRAKE www.mandriva.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for gdb SECUNIA secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
ASA-2006-015 (RHSA-2005-801) SECUNIA support.avaya.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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