CVE-2006-7252

2022-10-0316:21:25

mitre

www.cve.org

integer overflow

jemalloc

libc

freebsd

netbsd

memory attack

buffer overflow

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

41.8%

JSON

Integer overflow in the calloc function in libc/stdlib/malloc.c in jemalloc in libc for FreeBSD 6.4 and NetBSD makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which triggers a memory allocation of one byte.