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CVE-2018-13420

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

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

Affected products

• Gperftools Project Gperftools: 2.7

References

• https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/1013
• https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/1013

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