Bug#1125678: glibc: CVE-2026-0861

Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc
Message-ID <176851080120.2671351.13460605640544296230.reportbug__34164.4044894323$1768511017$gmane$org@eldamar.lan>
Source: glibc
Version: 2.42-7
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33796
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Control: found -1 2.41-12+deb13u1
Control: found -1 2.36-9+deb12u7
Control: found -1 2.36-9+deb12u13

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2026-0861[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-0861
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0861
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33796

Regards,
Salvatore
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