CVSS 3.0
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-6485
Critical (9.8). EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-190, CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:glibc
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:data_ontap_edge
- netapp:element_software
- netapp:element_software_management
- netapp:steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage
- netapp:storage_replication_adapter
- netapp:vasa_provider
- netapp:virtual_storage_console
- oracle:communications_session_border_controller
- oracle:enterprise_communications_broker
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- redhat:virtualization_host