CVE-2013-4332

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 6
Modified
Published: 09 Oct 2013, 22:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 16:38

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
28/100
CVSS Score
4.3 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.65% LOW
2% probability -0.12%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Oct 2013, 22:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 16:38
Last Modified
Vulnerability 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

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.65%• Percentile: 82%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-189•Numeric Errors

    Weaknesses in this category are related to improper calculation or conversion of numbers.

Affected Systems

  • gnu•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

  • redhat•enterprise_linux

    5

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