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CVE-2017-17426
high
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.
References
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=34697694e8a93b325b18f25f7dcded55d6baeaf6