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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2014-06-21 17:23:55 +1000
committerAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-01-16 07:07:18 -0500
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Mention CVE-2014-4043 in NEWS
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+2014-06-21  Allan McRae  <allan@archlinux.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Mention CVE-2014-4043.
+
 2014-06-11  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
 
 	[BZ #17048]
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 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
 
+* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
+  copy the path argument.  This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
+  deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
+  the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
+  invocation.
+
 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
   and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
   setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly