Name | CVE-2018-6485 |
Description | An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.26 and earlier could cause these functions to return a pointer to a heap area that is too small, potentially leading to heap corruption. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | ELA-724-1, ELA-725-1 |
Debian Bugs | 878159 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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glibc (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.19-18+deb8u14 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.24-11+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.24-11+deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.28-10+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.31-13+deb11u11 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.31-13+deb11u10 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.36-9+deb12u9 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2.36-9+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.40-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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eglibc | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
glibc | source | experimental | 2.26.9000+20180127.7e23a7dd-0experimental0 | | | |
glibc | source | jessie | 2.19-18+deb8u11 | | ELA-725-1 | |
glibc | source | stretch | 2.24-11+deb9u5 | | ELA-724-1 | |
glibc | source | (unstable) | 2.27-1 | | | 878159 |
Notes
[wheezy] - eglibc <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22343
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=8e448310d74b283c5cd02b9ed7fb997b47bf9b22