{"action":"Upgrade gdb to 8.3.1-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"8.3.1-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"gdb","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:12","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["8.3.1-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5NCSP2PSWKRWT5A852QZ74J","modified_at":"2026-09-01T20:03:52.353552953Z","published_at":"2017-06-21T07:29:00.367Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9778","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9778"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9778","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9778"}],"summary":"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 p"}