CVE-2018-13420 Denial of service in n/a
A reported memory leak in gperftools could theoretically lead to resource exhaustion, though maintainers dispute this as a false positive.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-13420?
CVE-2018-13420 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Jul 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-13420?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gperftools Project Gperftools.
How do I fix CVE-2018-13420?
No fix published yet.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-13420 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-13420 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-6453, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13420, GHSA-jc8c-gg53-wcm7, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13420.