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CVE-2017-9778
Published: Jun 21, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600
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