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SUSE: CVE-2017-17426: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-17426: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/05/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/19/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-glibc
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel-static
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-extra
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-i18ndata
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-info
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-lang
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-base
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-profile
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • suse-upgrade-nscd

References

  • CVE-2017-17426
  • USN-3534-1

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