Security Advisory

CVE-2018-6551

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-02-02 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 06:10:10

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

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