CVE-2018-13420

Publication date 7 July 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

** DISPUTED ** Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
google-perftools 18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
17.10 artful Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes


leosilva

from github comments it was classified as a false positive adding the ignored flag.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H