Record CVE-2018-6485 in ChangeLog and NEWS [BZ #22343]

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 2018-01-18  Arjun Shankar  <arjun@redhat.com>
 
        [BZ #22343]
+       CVE-2018-6485
        * malloc/malloc.c (checked_request2size): call REQUEST_OUT_OF_RANGE
        after padding.
        (_int_memalign): check for integer overflow before calling

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   succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
   of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall.  Reported by halfdog.
 
+  CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
+  an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
+  buffer which is too small, instead of NULL.  Reported by Jakub Wilk.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by