UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9778

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9778

    Published: 21 Jun 2017Last Modified: 8 Sept 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-9778

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9778, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9778

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gdb

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.5+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    7.10-1ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High