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CVE-2026-0861

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2026-0861 is a heap corruption vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc) versions 2.30 to 2.42, stemming from an integer overflow when passing excessively large alignment values to memalign-suite functions. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.4 (HIGH), indicating a significant impact with potential for high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, though it requires an attacker to control both size and alignment parameters, making practical exploitation challenging. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant media coverage. Community discussion is minimal, with only one mention found.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.30, <= 2.42CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20895-17084Fixed in: 2.38-18
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20868-17086Fixed in: 2.35-9
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 glibc 2.35-9 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.35-9
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 glibc 2.38-18 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 2.38-18
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: glibc-0:2.39-58.el10_1.7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: glibc-0:2.34-231.el9_7.10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Cost Management 4Fixed in: costmanagement/costmanagement-metrics-rhel9-operator:sha256:5ae433507d81fd888260a30b4519daf148c42a71d469e9f63eed75f599733937
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: rhcos

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2026-0861Low

glibc: Integer overflow in memalign leads to heap corruption

Jan 14, 2026
microsoft2026-Jan/CVE-2026-0861Moderate

Integer overflow in memalign leads to heap corruption

Jan 13, 2026

References

sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
sourceware.org / git
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2026/01/16/5
Mailing ListPatch