Passing too large an alignment to the memalign suite of functions (memalign, posix_memalign, aligned_alloc, valloc, pvalloc) in the GNU C Library version 2.30 to 2.42 may result in an integer overflow, which could consequently result in a heap corruption.
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| Description | Passing too large an alignment to the memalign suite of functions (memalign, posix_memalign, aligned_alloc, valloc, pvalloc) in the GNU C Library version 2.30 to 2.42 may result in an integer overflow, which could consequently result in a heap corruption. | |
| Title | Integer overflow in memalign leads to heap corruption | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-190 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: glibc
Published:
Updated: 2026-01-14T21:25:55.741Z
Reserved: 2026-01-12T14:35:11.285Z
Link: CVE-2026-0861
Updated: 2026-01-14T21:25:28.506Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-01-14T21:15:52.617
Modified: 2026-01-14T22:15:53.233
Link: CVE-2026-0861
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Updated: 2026-01-15T08:03:18Z