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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2017-08-16 16:47:20 +0200
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>2018-04-06 16:26:37 -0300
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Add ChangeLog reference to bug 16750/CVE-2009-5064
(cherry picked from commit 403143e1df85dadd374f304bd891be0cd7573e3b)
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@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
 
 2017-08-16  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
 
+	[BZ #16750]
+	CVE-2009-5064
 	* elf/ldd.bash.in: Never run file directly.
 
 2016-10-14  Carlos Eduardo Seo  <cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ebebb402e1..d7c016c021 100644
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@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ Version 2.22.1
   to the allocation of too much memory.  (This is not a security bug per se,
   it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.)  Reported by
   Qualys.
+
+* CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
+  examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
+  dynamic linker.  (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
+  vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
+  script.)
 
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