Vulnerability CVE-2013-4332
Published: 2013-10-09   Modified: 2013-10-11

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
VMware vSphere updates to third party libraries
VMware
12.03.2014
Low
glibc 2.18 integer overflows in malloc (heap corruption)
Will Newton
20.06.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
GNU -> Glibc 

 References:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1411.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1605.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/12/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62324
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4332
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15855
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15856
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15857
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