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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-02-01 15:00:44 +0100
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>2018-04-06 16:27:42 -0300
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Record CVE-2018-6485 in ChangeLog and NEWS [BZ #22343]
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@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ Version 2.22.1
   dynamic linker.  (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
   vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
   script.)
+
+* CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
+  an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
+  buffer which is too small, instead of NULL.  Reported by Jakub Wilk.
 
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