Security advisory

{
  "id": "1b9564dd50bc296935926cc7bcd0867fc94649b270dd709fb989146fe98487d8",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-13420",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-13420",
    "summary": "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",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-13420",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-13420",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-13420"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "9608fa3bcf8020d35f59fbf70cd3cbe4b015b972"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "9608fa3bcf8020d35f59fbf70cd3cbe4b015b972"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gperftools_project:gperftools:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.7"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.7"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.7",
            "gperftools-2.7"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-13420.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:20.084626357Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/1013"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-13420",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381559,
  "published_at": "2018-07-07T17:29:00.43+00:00"
}