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CVE-2017-9778
published 2017-06-21

CVE-2017-9778: 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…

medium5.5CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
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.

Affected

6 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiangdb< gdb 8.3.1-1 (bookworm)gdb 8.3.1-1 (bookworm)
gnugdb<= 8.0
gnugdb>= 0 < 8.3.1-18.3.1-1
gnugdb>= 0 < 8.3.1-18.3.1-1
gnugdb>= 0 < 8.3.1-18.3.1-1
gnugdb>= 0 < 8.3.1-18.3.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.05.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM