UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13420

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-13420

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13420.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13420

Upstream

CVE-2018-13420

Published

2018-07-07T17:29:00Z

Modified

2026-04-22T11:44:59.435460Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - low

Summary

[none]

Details

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

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / google-perftools

Package

Name: google-perftools
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/google-perftools@2.4-0ubuntu5.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.4-0ubuntu4

2.4-0ubuntu5

2.4-0ubuntu5.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "google-perftools",
            "binary_version": "2.4-0ubuntu5.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgoogle-perftools4",
            "binary_version": "2.4-0ubuntu5.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libtcmalloc-minimal4",
            "binary_version": "2.4-0ubuntu5.16.04.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13420.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / google-perftools