{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2018-6551", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The malloc implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6), from version 2.24 to 2.26 on powerpc, and only in version 2.26 on i386, did not properly handle malloc calls with arguments close to SIZE_MAX and could return a pointer to a heap region that is smaller than requested, eventually leading to heap corruption." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=8e448310d74b283c5cd02b9ed7fb997b47bf9b22", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=8e448310d74b283c5cd02b9ed7fb997b47bf9b22" }, { "name": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22774", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22774" }, { "refsource": "CONFIRM", "name": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/", "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/" } ] } }