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CVE-2018-6485
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-02-01T14:29:00.623 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:01:53.690

Summary

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 products

gnu — glibc

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