vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-6485: Security patch for glibc (ALAS-2018-1109)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Feb 1, 2018 | Dec 7, 2018 | Aug 25, 2020 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 1, 2018
Added
Dec 7, 2018
Modified
Aug 25, 2020
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.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc

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