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CVE-2006-4146

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4146 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU Debugger (GDB) version 6.5, specifically within its DWARF and DWARF2 debugging code. This flaw allows user-assisted or restricted attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying a specially crafted file containing a large number of operations in a location block. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.1, indicating a medium severity with network access, high attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0323 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: gdb-0:6.3.0.0-1.138.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: gdb-0:6.3.0.0-1.143.el4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-4146Low

GDB buffer overflow

Aug 31, 2006

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc
docs.info.apple.com / article.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2006/Oct/msg00000.html
lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/21713
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22205
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22662
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25098
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25632
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25894
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25934
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26909
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27706
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10463
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-253.htm
osvdb.org / 28318
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0229.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0469.html
securityfocus.com / bid/19802
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-356-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3433
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4283
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3229