CVE-2018-6551

2018-02-0214:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

8.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

66.3%

JSON

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.