CVE-2018-6551
N/A
Published: February 2, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:02 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGlibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (3)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22774Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190CWE-787
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