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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 |