Original patch from gentoo: gentoo/src/patchsets/gdb/6.8/80_all_gdb-6.5-dwarf-stack-overflow.patch

-= BEGIN original header =-

http://bugs.gentoo.org/144833

for gdb/ChangeLog:

2006-08-22  Will Drewry <wad@google.com>

	    Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>

	* dwarf2read.c (decode_locdesc): Enforce location description stack

	boundaries.

	* dwarfread.c (locval): Likewise.

-= END original header =-

diff -durN gdb-6.8.orig/gdb/dwarf2read.c gdb-6.8/gdb/dwarf2read.c

--- gdb-6.8.orig/gdb/dwarf2read.c	2008-03-10 15:18:10.000000000 +0100

+++ gdb-6.8/gdb/dwarf2read.c	2008-06-17 16:07:31.000000000 +0200

@@ -9124,8 +9124,7 @@

    callers will only want a very basic result and this can become a

    complaint.

-   Note that stack[0] is unused except as a default error return.

-   Note that stack overflow is not yet handled.  */

+   Note that stack[0] is unused except as a default error return. */

 static CORE_ADDR

 decode_locdesc (struct dwarf_block *blk, struct dwarf2_cu *cu)

@@ -9142,7 +9141,7 @@

   i = 0;

   stacki = 0;

-  stack[stacki] = 0;

+  stack[++stacki] = 0;

   while (i < size)

     {

@@ -9324,6 +9323,16 @@

 		     dwarf_stack_op_name (op));

 	  return (stack[stacki]);

 	}

+      /* Enforce maximum stack depth of size-1 to avoid ++stacki writing

+         outside of the allocated space. Also enforce minimum > 0.

+         -- wad@google.com 14 Aug 2006 */

+      if (stacki >= sizeof (stack) / sizeof (*stack) - 1)

+	internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__,

+	                _("location description stack too deep: %d"),

+	                stacki);

+      if (stacki <= 0)

+	internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__,

+	                _("location description stack too shallow"));

     }

   return (stack[stacki]);

 }