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CVE-2018-6551
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-02-02T14:29:01.590 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:02:00.563

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — glibc

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