Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerability
Publication date: 06 Mar 2018Modification date: 06 Mar 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2018-6485 , CVE-2018-6551
Description
An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.26 and earlier could cause these functions to return a pointer to a heap area that is too small, potentially leading to heap corruption (CVE-2018-6485, CVE-2018-6551).
References
SRPMS
6/core
- glibc-2.22-28.mga6