Vulnerability in GNU Glibc
CVE-2013-4332
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (84.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNU Glibc — versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1605.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/55113 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/12/6 (mailing-list, Patch)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/62324 (vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1411.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)