From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] glibc: security bump to the latest commit on 2.26 branch
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:56:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87606ukof2.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180215230100.7869-1-peter@korsgaard.com> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:01:00 +0100")
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> writes:
> Fixes the following security issues according to NEWS:
> CVE-2018-6485: An integer overflow in the implementation of the
> posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka
> CVE-2018-6551: The malloc implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or
> libc6), from version 2.24 to 2.26 on powerpc, and only in version 2.26 on
> i386, did not properly handle malloc calls with arguments close to SIZE_MAX
> and could return a pointer to a heap region that is smaller than requested,
> eventually leading to heap corruption.
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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2018-02-15 23:01 [Buildroot] [PATCH] glibc: security bump to the latest commit on 2.26 branch Peter Korsgaard
2018-02-18 20:56 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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2018-02-06 15:30 Peter Korsgaard
2018-02-08 22:22 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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