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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index ab41d9d947..6b752ac3de 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1164,6 +1164,7 @@ 2017-11-30 Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com> [BZ #22375] + CVE-2017-17426 * malloc/malloc.c (__libc_malloc): Use checked_request2size instead of request2size. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dc5fe32cf8..faa60abe30 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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 |