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authorDmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>2022-10-04 08:00:00 +0000
committerDmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>2022-10-04 08:00:00 +0000
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NEWS: Mention CVE-2021-35942
Add a NEWS entry for the fix that was backported by commit
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@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Security related changes:
   issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
   attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
 
+  CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
+  parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
+  Reported by Philippe Antoine.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [20019] NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to uninitialized GOT