K62318311: glibc vulnerability CVE-2017-17426

Security Advisory 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 SIZEMAX, potentially leading to a subsequent heap overflow. This occurs because the...

Fedora Update for glibc FEDORA-2018-9c88c32d15

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 27 : glibc (2017-fb5e227432)

This update fixes minor security bugs CVE-2017-17426, CVE-2017-15804, contains single-threaded optimizations for malloc, and increases compatibility with IBM POWER 9 hardware. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system...

CVE-2017-17426

CVE-2017-17426 affects the GNU C Library (glibc/libc6) up to version 2.26. The heap overflow arises from an integer overflow check missing in the per-thread cache (tcache) path when allocating an object near SIZE_MAX, potentially allowing code execution. Exploitation details are not provided in t...