CVE-2017-17426 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Glibc
Severity
8.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.96%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 5
Latest updateMay 17
Description
The malloc function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.26 could return a memory block that is too small if an attempt is made to allocate an object whose size is close to SIZE_MAX, potentially leading to a subsequent heap overflow. This occurs because the per-thread cache (aka tcache) feature enables a code path that lacks an integer overflow check.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 5.9