CVE-2018-6485

CWE-190 — Integer OverflowCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write10 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
1.1%
top 22.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
GNU GlibcNetapp Storage Replication AdapterNetapp Vasa Provider+7 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 1
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages11 packages

▶Debianglibc< 2.27-1+3
▶NVDgnu/glibc2.26

Patches

Patch: access.redhat.com ↗Patch: www.oracle.com ↗Patch: access.redhat.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-m775-r988-g6m4: An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-6485: An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2↗2018-02-01
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CVEList
CVE-2018-6485: An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2↗2018-02-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
GNU C Library vulnerabilities↗2020-07-06
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Ubuntu
GNU C Library vulnerability↗2019-12-10
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Debian
CVE-2018-6485: glibc - An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign func...↗2018
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Red Hat
glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions↗2017-10-10
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6485 glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions [fedora-all]↗2018-02-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6485 glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions↗2018-02-05
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CVE-2018-6485 (CRITICAL CVSS 9.8) | An integer overflow in the implemen | cvebase.io