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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-02-06 09:19:03 +0100
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>2018-04-06 16:29:37 -0300
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Record CVE-2018-6551 in NEWS and ChangeLog [BZ #22774]
(cherry picked from commit 71aa429b029fdb6f9e65d44050388b51eca460d6)
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
2018-01-18 Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>
[BZ #22343]
+ [BZ #22774]
CVE-2018-6485
+ CVE-2018-6551
* malloc/malloc.c (checked_request2size): call REQUEST_OUT_OF_RANGE
after padding.
(_int_memalign): check for integer overflow before calling
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ac8901e05d..db81e9e6b1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ Version 2.22.1
* 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.
+
+* CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, 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.
Version 2.22