{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2017-9778", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600" }, { "name": "99244", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99244" } ] } }