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CVE-2018-6485

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 4.69%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-02-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2018-6485
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.69%

Original Filing — NVD 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.