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CVE-2018-6485

N/A
Published: February 1, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:01 AM UTC
15 products affected across 4 vendorsEnterprise Linux DesktopEnterprise Linux ServerEnterprise Linux Workstation

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (9)

x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.debian.org/878159
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102912
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3092
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22343
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4218-1/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190CWE-787

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