Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting glibc-common package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.1% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-GLIBCCOMMON-1999524
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Oct 2017

Introduced: 10 Oct 2017

CVE-2018-6485  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 glibc-common.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-common package and not the glibc-common package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.