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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2014-06-21 17:23:55 +1000
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2014-06-21 17:23:55 +1000
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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.
+
 2014-06-20  Roland McGrath  <roland@hack.frob.com>
 
 	* nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/smp.h: Moved ...
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   default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
   transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
   is not built.
+
+* 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.
 
 Version 2.19