CVE-2017-9778
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.30%Published: 6/21/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9778
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/gdbfrom 0, < 8.3.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |