Add references to CVE-2017-17426

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2017-11-30 Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com> 2017-11-30 Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>
[BZ #22375] [BZ #22375]
CVE-2017-17426
* malloc/malloc.c (__libc_malloc): Use checked_request2size * malloc/malloc.c (__libc_malloc): Use checked_request2size
instead of request2size. instead of request2size.

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without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen. unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
The following bugs are resolved with this release: The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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