CVE-2017-9778

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2017-9778

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2017-06-21T07:29:00

Last Modified Date
2019-10-03T00:03:26

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-20	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb::::::::	1	OR		8.0

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
5.5

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
1.8

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21600	Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99244	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9778
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9778

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:30:06				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 18:01:14	2017-06-21T07:29Z	2017-06-21T07:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 18:01:14		2019-10-03T00:03:26	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 18:01:14		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated