CVE-2018-13420: Gperftools Project Gperftools

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 2.7 only

Published 2018-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.