[PATCH 2.22 14/14] Record CVE-2018-6551 in NEWS and ChangeLog [BZ #22774]
Raphael Moreira Zinsly
rzinsly@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2018
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 71aa429b029fdb6f9e65d44050388b51eca460d6)
---
ChangeLog | 2 ++
NEWS | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 162c5da..bbf02ac 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
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 d151e13..a8f115f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ Version 2.22.1
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
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1.8.3.1
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