DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6551

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6551
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6551.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6551
Upstream
Published
2018-02-02T14:29:01Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:29Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.27-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.27-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.27-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.27-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}