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CVE-2018-6551

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Description

The malloc implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6), from version 2.24 to 2.26 on powerpc, and only in version 2.26 on i386, did not properly handle malloc calls with arguments close to SIZE_MAX and could return a pointer to a heap region that is smaller than requested, eventually leading to heap corruption.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published2/2/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

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Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:glibc

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-190CWE-787

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/(cve@mitre.org)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22774(cve@mitre.org)

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8e448310d74b283c5cd02b9ed7fb997b47bf9b22(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22774(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8e448310d74b283c5cd02b9ed7fb997b47bf9b22(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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