CVE-2018-13420

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-13420 · Published 07/07/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-13420 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting gperftools (gperftools project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gperftools gperftools_project	`= 2.7`	No fix yet

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

References

gperftools/gperftools · Third Party Advisory

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