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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2017-10-22 09:29:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> | 2017-12-02 22:56:28 +0100 |
| commit | 1e53b88296dc95d325d6073910a33dca851b6bc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ccfbbd1da4e7174e8bce90d43254a2fcdbffd72 | |
| parent | 5ff2eb52b236ca3d77f92272e8711b3c2b98140b (diff) | |
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Update NEWS and ChangeLog for CVE-2017-15671
(cherry picked from commit 914c9994d27b80bc3b71c483e801a4f04e269ba6)
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 756a3cc0f0..01a1e99d83 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ 2017-09-08 Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> [BZ #1062] + CVE-2017-15671 * posix/Makefile (routines): Add globfree, globfree64, and glob_pattern_p. * posix/flexmember.h: New file. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8c10e88ec5..a70d21eb40 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ Security related changes: from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name). +* CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, + would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator + processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial + of service. + The following bugs are resolved with this release: [20790] Fix rpcgen buffer overrun |