CVE-2026-0861

Published: January 16, 2026Last modified: January 20, 2026

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.

Severity score breakdown

ParameterValue
Base score8.4
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack complexityLOW
Privileges requiredNONE
User interactionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityHIGH
Integrity impactHIGH
Availability impactHIGH
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Status

ProductReleasePackageStatus
Alpaquita Linux23 LTSglibcFixed (2.37.0-r20)
25 LTSglibcFixed (2.39.0-r5)
StreamglibcFixed (2.39.0-r6)
Hardened Containers23 LTSglibcFixed (2.37.0-r20)
25 LTSglibcFixed (2.39.0-r5)
StreamglibcFixed (2.39.0-r6)

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