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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2017-12-06 07:39:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2017-12-06 07:40:42 +0100 |
| commit | 37ac8e635a29810318f6d79902102e2e96b2b5bf (patch) | |
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Add references to CVE-2017-17426
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@@ -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 |