High Severity Vulnerability
This vulnerability has been rated as High severity. Immediate action is recommended.
CVE-2026-0861
High
Low
Medium
High
Critical
8.4
CVSS Score
Published: Jan 14, 2026
Last Modified: Jan 14, 2026
Vulnerability 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.
CVSS Metrics
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Vector String:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
L
Attack Complexity
L
Privileges Required
N
User Interaction
N
Scope
U
Confidentiality
H
Integrity
H
Availability
H
References & Resources
Severity Details
8.4
out of 10.0
High
Key Information
- Published Date
- January 14, 2026
