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 GDB to repeatedly allocate memory until a process limit is reached. This can, for example, impede efforts to analyze malware with GDB.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2017-06-21
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-770
Affected products
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99244
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600
