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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2017-12-06 07:39:25 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2017-12-06 07:40:42 +0100
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Add references to CVE-2017-17426
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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