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Bug 1871383

Summary:	glibc: Improve malloc implementation (includes Safe Linking)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	DJ Delorie <dj>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Martin Coufal <mcoufal>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:	Jacob Taylor Valdez <jvaldez>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	8.4	CC:	ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, jvaldez, mcoufal, mnewsome, pfrankli, sipoyare, skolosov
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	8.0	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	glibc-2.28-215.el8	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	.Security improvements added for `glibc` The `SafeLinking` feature has been added to `glibc`. As a result, it improves protection for the `malloc` family of functions against certain single-linked list corruption including the allocator's thread-local cache.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2023-05-16 09:03:05 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description Carlos O'Donell 2020-08-23 01:26:28 UTC

Backport the following commits to improve the malloc implementation:

a1a486d70ebcc47a686ff5846875eacad0940e41
Add Safe-Linking to fastbins and tcache

768358b6a80742f6be68ecd9f952f4b60614df96
Typo fixes and CR cleanup in Safe-Linking

49c3c37651e2d2ec4ff8ce21252bbbc08a9d6639
Fix alignment bug in Safe-Linking

6310d570bf20348135d09e1f9de84a9ae7d06f83
Add tests for Safe-Linking

b9cde4e3aa1ff338da7064daf1386b2f4a7351ba
malloc: ensure set_max_fast never stores zero [BZ #25733]

Comment 3 DJ Delorie 2021-03-02 15:41:57 UTC

This upstream proposed patch should be included also:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-August/116916.html

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2022-02-23 07:27:20 UTC

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.

Comment 7 Carlos O'Donell 2022-02-23 14:05:37 UTC

Reopening for planning purposes.

Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 09:03:05 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 (glibc bug fix and enhancement update), 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/RHBA-2023:2955