| 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, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 878159 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| glibc (PTS) | bullseye | 2.31-13+deb11u11 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.31-13+deb11u13 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 2.36-9+deb12u13 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 2.36-9+deb12u7 | fixed | |
| forky, sid, trixie | 2.41-12 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eglibc | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| glibc | source | experimental | 2.26.9000+20180127.7e23a7dd-0experimental0 | |||
| glibc | source | (unstable) | 2.27-1 | 878159 |
[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