CVE-2006-4146: GNU Gdb

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the (1) DWARF (dwarfread.c) and (2) DWARF2 (dwarf2read.c) debugging code in GNU Debugger (GDB) 6.5 allows user-assisted attackers, or restricted users, to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file with a location block (DW_FORM_block) that contains a large number of operations.

Affected products

• GNU Gdb: version 6.5 only

Published 2006-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.