VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-13420

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.49%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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 classification

  • CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Primary references