PT-2026-2957
CVE-2026-0861
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Published
2026-01-14
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Updated
2026-05-24
Description by
CVSS 3.1
8.4
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
GNU C Library versions 2.30 through 2.42
Description
Providing an excessively large alignment value to the
memalign family of functions – including memalign, posix memalign, aligned alloc, valloc, and pvalloc – within the GNU C Library can lead to an integer overflow. This overflow may result in heap corruption.Recommendations
Update to a version beyond 2.42.
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