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Bug 1662843

Summary: glibc: realloc ncopies integer overflow [rhel-8]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: glibcAssignee: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Sergey Kolosov <skolosov>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.1CC: ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, mcermak, mnewsome, pfrankli, skolosov
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch
Target Release: 8.1Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: glibc-2.28-43.el8 Doc Type: No Doc Update
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Clone Of: 1662841 Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-11-05 21:29:04 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1662841, 1682593    
Bug Blocks: 1657582, 1684553, 1701002    

Description Florian Weimer 2019-01-02 07:46:27 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1662841 +++

Under rare circumstances, the realloc implementation in glibc may not copy the entire allocation.  We need to backport this upstream commit:

commit b50dd3bc8cbb1efe85399b03d7e6c0310c2ead84
Author: Florian Weimer <fw.de>
Date:   Mon Dec 31 22:04:36 2018 +0100

    malloc: Always call memcpy in _int_realloc [BZ #24027]
    
    This commit removes the custom memcpy implementation from _int_realloc
    for small chunk sizes.  The ncopies variable has the wrong type, and
    an integer wraparound could cause the existing code to copy too few
    elements (leaving the new memory region mostly uninitialized).
    Therefore, removing this code fixes bug 24027.
Comment 2 Sergey Kolosov 2019-04-29 06:24:59 UTC 
Verified,
the bug has been fixed in glibc-2.28-43.el8
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:29:04 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513