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CVE-2018-6551

by Fred · 02/02/2018

The malloc implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6), from version 2.24 to 2.26 on powerpc, and only in version 2.26 on i386, did not properly handle malloc calls with arguments close to SIZE_MAX and could return a pointer to a heap region that is smaller than requested, eventually leading to heap corruption.

Date published : 2018-02-02

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22774

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