CVE-2018-6551 (GCVE-0-2018-6551)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:10
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Summary
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.
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2018-02-02 00:00
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