Secunia Security Advisory - Apple has acknowledged a vulnerability in GDB included in Xcode, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Apple Xcode GDB "DWARF" Buffer Overflow
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22662
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22662/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Apple Xcode 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/10144/
DESCRIPTION:
Apple has acknowledged a vulnerability in GDB included in Xcode,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges or malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.
For more information:
SA21713
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.4.1.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304669
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA21713:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21713/
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