Bug 1524530 (CVE-2017-17426)

Summary: CVE-2017-17426 glibc: Integer overflow with enabled tcache
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aoliva, arjun.is, ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, glibc-bugzilla, law, mfabian, mnewsome, pfrankli, siddhesh, yozone
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 16:19:43 UTC 
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.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22375

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=34697694e8a93b325b18f25f7dcded55d6baeaf6

Introduced by:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=d5c3fafc4307c9b7a4c7d5cb381fcdbfad340bcc