Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-159
Advisory Release Date: 2013-03-02 16:48 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 22:33 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
GDB tried to auto-load certain files (such as GDB scripts, Python scripts, and a thread debugging library) from the current working directory when debugging programs. This could result in the execution of arbitrary code with the user's privileges when GDB was run in a directory that has untrusted content. (CVE-2011-4355)
With this update, GDB no longer auto-loads files from the current directory and only trusts certain system directories by default. The list of trusted directories can be viewed and modified using the "show auto-load safe-path" and "set auto-load safe-path" GDB commands. Refer to the GDB manual, linked to in the References, for further information.
Affected Packages:
gdb
Issue Correction:
Run yum update gdb to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
gdb-7.2-60.13.amzn1.i686
gdb-gdbserver-7.2-60.13.amzn1.i686
gdb-debuginfo-7.2-60.13.amzn1.i686
src:
gdb-7.2-60.13.amzn1.src
x86_64:
gdb-debuginfo-7.2-60.13.amzn1.x86_64
gdb-gdbserver-7.2-60.13.amzn1.x86_64
gdb-7.2-60.13.amzn1.x86_64