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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-4146: VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-4146: VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/31/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-vmware-player
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-vmware-workstation

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