Security Advisory

CVE-2018-6485

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-02-01 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 06:01:49
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.26 and earlier could cause these functions to return a pointer to a heap area that is too small, potentially leading to heap corruption.