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CVE-2017-9778

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.1%

Medium (5.5) in gnu gdb. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWEs
CWE-20, CWE-770
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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