4.3

CVE-2013-4332: gnu glibc Numeric Errors

Modified
AliasesRHSA-2013:1411DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4332
Published 09-10-2013Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-4332 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Numeric Errors vulnerability in gnu glibc. EPSS estimates a 2.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.3, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.61%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits2reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 1
DLA-165-1MGASA-2013-0340OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10154-1RHSA-2013:1605

Timeline

  1. 09-10-2013
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple integer overflows in malloc/malloc.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) via a large value to the (1) pvalloc, (2) valloc, (3) posix_memalign, (4) memalign, or (5) aligned_alloc functions.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.61%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

85%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 2.61% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

2 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (sourceware.org)

    Maturity: unknown

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (sourceware.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat9 products
  • enterprise_linuxEOL5
  • glibc< 0:2.5-118.el5_10.2
  • glibc-common< 0:2.5-118.el5_10.2
  • glibc-debuginfo< 0:2.5-118.el5_10.2
  • glibc-debuginfo-common< 0:2.5-118.el5_10.2
Debian1 product
  • glibc< 2.17-93
Gnu1 product
  • glibc≤ 2.18 | 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.0.6 | 2.1 | 2.11 | 2.1.1.6 | 2.12 | 2.13 | 2.19 | 2.10.1 | 2.11.1 | 2.11.2 | 2.11.3 | 2.12.1 | 2.12.2 | 2.14 | 2.14.1 | 2.15 | 2.16 | 2.17

3 vendors · 11 products

References

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