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2017-11-30 Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>
[BZ #22375]
+ CVE-2017-17426
* malloc/malloc.c (__libc_malloc): Use checked_request2size
instead of request2size.
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@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ Security related changes:
without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
+ CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
+ the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
+ instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
+ thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[The release manager will add the list generated by