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| author | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> | 2023-09-26 07:38:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> | 2023-09-26 15:36:54 -0400 |
| commit | 73d4ce728a59deb2fd18969e559769b3f590fac9 (patch) | |
| tree | 585bb5f5255105ed7179d27714ca3110c17b6e92 | |
| parent | 17092c0311f954e6f3c010f73ce3a78c24ac279a (diff) | |
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Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS
These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> (cherry picked from commit fd134feba35fa839018965733b34d28a09a075dd)
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 94adcee263..36da15a922 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -86,6 +86,17 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release: [30804] F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 +Security related changes: + + CVE-2023-4806: When an NSS plugin only implements the + _gethostbyname2_r and _getcanonname_r callbacks, getaddrinfo could use + memory that was freed during buffer resizing, potentially causing a + crash or read or write to arbitrary memory. + + CVE-2023-5156: The fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced a memory leak when + an application calls getaddrinfo for AF_INET6 with AI_CANONNAME, + AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED flags set. + Version 2.35 |