Add references to CVE-2017-17426

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@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ Security related changes:
   without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
   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:
 
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