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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-02-01 15:00:44 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-02-01 17:16:53 +0100
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Record CVE-2018-6485 in ChangeLog and NEWS [BZ #22343]
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@@ -258,6 +258,10 @@ Security related changes:
   succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
   of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall.  Reported by halfdog.
 
+  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.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by