CVE-2018-6485

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    CVE-2018-6485

    Published: 1 Feb 2018Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4218-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102912, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/, http://bugs.debian.org/878159, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22343, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3092, https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    glibc-2.26

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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