CVE-2017-9778

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

GNU Debugger (GDB) 8.0 and earlier fails to detect a negative length field in a DWARF section. A malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can cause GDB to repeatedly allocate memory until a process limit is reached. This can, for example, impede efforts to analyze malware with GDB.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20 CWE-770

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99244Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99244Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 21, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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