CVE-2017-9778
N/A
Published: June 21, 2017 at 07:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:28 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGdb
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (2)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99244x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20CWE-770
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