Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting google-perftools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.49% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-GOOGLEPERFTOOLS-5681253
  • published11 Jul 2018
  • disclosed7 Jul 2018

Introduced: 7 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13420  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:13 google-perftools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream google-perftools package and not the google-perftools package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program