{"id":"CVE-2017-9778","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.","modified":"2026-03-12T22:42:35.785544Z","published":"2017-06-21T07:29:00.367Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99244"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9778.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}