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gdb: multiple vulnerabilities

gdb: multiple vulnerabilities

Posted Nov 3, 2005 14:27 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: gdb: multiple vulnerabilities by JoeBuck
Parent article: gdb: multiple vulnerabilities

Well, suppose I leave a malicious .gdbinit in /tmp and one of your daemons happened to dump core in /tmp. So, you fire up GDB and get p3wned. Not exactly a good state to be in.

It seems like the shared working area and symlink problems could be solved by sourcing a trusted file in the user's home directory, and placing within that file any customizations on the default security policy.


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