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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2017-9778 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (gdb), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
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.