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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99244 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-06-21T07:00:00
Updated: 2017-06-26T09:57:01
Reserved: 2017-06-21T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-9778
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-06-21T07:29:00.367
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2017-9778
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Redhat Information
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