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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-06-21T07:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:18:02.165Z

Reserved: 2017-06-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-9778

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-06-21T07:29:00.367

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-9778

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-06-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9778 - Bugzilla