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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-02-06 09:19:03 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-02-06 09:19:13 +0100
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Record CVE-2018-6551 in NEWS and ChangeLog [BZ #22774]
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@@ -291,6 +291,10 @@ Security related changes:
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.
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks