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CVE-2018-6485

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
9.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.914

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-2.17-260.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-2.17-260.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-common-2.17-260.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-devel-2.17-260.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-devel-2.17-260.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-headers-2.17-260.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-static-2.17-260.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-static-2.17-260.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update glibc-utils-2.17-260.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3092) glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update nscd-2.17-260.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
GNU C Library (USN-4416-1) libc6_2.27-3ubuntu1.2_i386.debLinux
GNU C Library (USN-4416-1) libc6_2.27-3ubuntu1.2_amd64.debLinux
GNU C Library (USN-4416-1) libc6_2.30-0ubuntu2.2_i386.debLinux
GNU C Library (USN-4416-1) libc6_2.30-0ubuntu2.2_amd64.debLinux
GNU C Library (USN-4416-1) libc6_2.23-0ubuntu11.2_i386.debLinux
GNU C Library (USN-4416-1) libc6_2.23-0ubuntu11.2_amd64.debLinux
Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability (CVE-2018-6485)NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234