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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-6485: ELSA-2018-3092: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-6485: ELSA-2018-3092: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/10/2017
Created
05/08/2019
Added
11/06/2018
Modified
07/22/2024

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(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-static
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nscd

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