CVE-2018-13420

7.5 highEPSS 1.5%

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

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-772
Published: 2018-07-07
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gperftools_project:gperftools

References

https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/1013
https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/1013

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