{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9778 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2017-9778 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Jun 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-9778 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-9778 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Jun 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9778 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9778/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9778/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-9778","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9778/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-9778","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9778","GHSA-hmmq-v5m7-8j9w","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9778"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU Debugger","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A malformed DWARF section in an ELF binary or core file causes GDB to exhaust memory, leading to a denial of service during analysis.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"gdb","vendor":"gnu"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-770","name":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling"},{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-9778","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-9779"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-9776"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2017-06-21","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in gdb","id":"CVE-2019-1010180","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-07-24"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2005-1705","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-05-24"},{"cvss_score":6.9,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2011-4355","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-03-04"},{"cvss_score":5.5,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2023-39128","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-07-25"},{"cvss_score":5.5,"headline":"Use after free in n/a","id":"CVE-2023-39129","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-07-25"},{"cvss_score":5.5,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2023-39130","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-07-25"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A malformed DWARF section in an ELF binary or core file causes GDB to exhaust memory, leading to a denial of service during analysis.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-9778/"}