From 4590634fd65162568b9f52fb4beb60aa25da37f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Weimer Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:00:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Record CVE-2018-6485 in ChangeLog and NEWS [BZ #22343] --- ChangeLog | 1 + NEWS | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index fdf303a..713af78 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -702,6 +702,7 @@ 2018-01-18 Arjun Shankar [BZ #22343] + CVE-2018-6485 * 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 5c27f5c..70798f6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -258,6 +258,10 @@ Security related changes: succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog. + 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. + The following bugs are resolved with this release: [The release manager will add the list generated by -- 2.7.4