Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: gdb security update

An updated gdb package that fixes several bugs and minor security issues is now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. GDB, the GNU debugger, allows debugging of programs written in C, C++, and other languages by executing them i...

USN-135-1: gdb vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy found an integer overflow in the GNU debugger. By tricking an user into merely load a specially crafted executable, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running gdb. However, loading untrusted binaries without actually executing th...