CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9778

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-06-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-770

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 configurations

• gnu gdb (<= 8.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References