diff options
| author |   Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2018-02-06 09:19:03 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer |   Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> | 2018-03-04 22:56:53 +0100 |
| commit | c858816b04fddf951d1ecf4c3e9e89037720a954 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e8d5df021b32024bbe5e0b411caeb7c1896dfff | |
| parent | [no-patch] locale-gen: suppress ignored error when emptying already empty dir... (diff) | |
| download | glibc-c858816b04fddf951d1ecf4c3e9e89037720a954.tar.gz glibc-c858816b04fddf951d1ecf4c3e9e89037720a954.tar.bz2 glibc-c858816b04fddf951d1ecf4c3e9e89037720a954.zip | |
Record CVE-2018-6551 in NEWS and ChangeLog [BZ #22774]
(cherry picked from commit 71aa429b029fdb6f9e65d44050388b51eca460d6)
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -710,7 +710,9 @@ 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 @@ -262,6 +262,10 @@ Security related changes: 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. + The following bugs are resolved with this release: [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks |