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Record CVE-2018-6485 in ChangeLog and NEWS [BZ #22343]
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2018-01-18 Arjun Shankar <[email protected]>
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[BZ #22343]
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CVE-2018-6485
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* malloc/malloc.c (checked_request2size): call REQUEST_OUT_OF_RANGE
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after padding.
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(_int_memalign): check for integer overflow before calling

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succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
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of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
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CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
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an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
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buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
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The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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[The release manager will add the list generated by

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