Source: glibc Version: 2.26-0experimental1 Severity: important Tags: patch security upstream fixed-upstream Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22375
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for glibc (only affecting experimental) CVE-2017-17426[0]: | The malloc function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.26 | could return a memory block that is too small if an attempt is made to | allocate an object whose size is close to SIZE_MAX, potentially leading | to a subsequent heap overflow. This occurs because the per-thread cache | (aka tcache) feature enables a code path that lacks an integer overflow | check. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17426 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17426 [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22375 Regards, Salvatore