View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2017-9778 severity low: SUSE including 2 source package names (gdb, gdbserver), 39 product×package rows across 31 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, … (31 product lines)): Known Not Affected 39.
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.