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GNU C Library master sources branch master updated. glibc-2.26.9000-1255-g4590634


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commit 4590634fd65162568b9f52fb4beb60aa25da37f2
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 1 15:00:44 2018 +0100

    Record CVE-2018-6485 in ChangeLog and NEWS [BZ #22343]

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fdf303a..713af78 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -702,6 +702,7 @@
 2018-01-18  Arjun Shankar  <arjun@redhat.com>
 
 	[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

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog |    1 +
 NEWS      |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


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