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
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
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cve-icon 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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cve-icon 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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