Bug 1466255 (CVE-2017-9778) - CVE-2017-9778 gdb: Malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can cause memory exhaustion
Summary: CVE-2017-9778 gdb: Malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can caus...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-9778
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1466257
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-29 11:07 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-06-29 11:09:17 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-06-29 11:07:50 UTC 
GNU Debugger (GDB) 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. 

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-06-29 11:08:41 UTC 
Created gdb tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1466257]
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