CVE-2006-7252
N/A
Published: July 25, 2012 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFreeBSDNetBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
Integer overflow in the calloc function in libc/stdlib/malloc.c in jemalloc in libc for FreeBSD 6.4 and NetBSD makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which triggers a memory allocation of one byte.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=161263Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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