CVE-2017-9778: Improper Input Validation

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...

CVE-2006-4146: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Buffer overflow in the 1 DWARF dwarfread.c and 2 DWARF2 dwarf2read.c debugging code in GNU Debugger GDB 6.5 allows user-assisted attackers, or restricted users, to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file with a location block DWFORMblock that contains a large number of operations...