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PK93225: Apache Portable Runtime memory allocation functions can return invalid pointers (CVE-2009-2412).

Abstract

When callers ask for one giant memory allocation of just below the address space size (e.g. 2^32 and (2^32 - 6)

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Modified date:
21 July 2026