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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2023-10-12 12:50:49 -0400
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2023-12-07 12:31:23 -0500
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Move CVE information into advisories directory
One of the requirements to becoming a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) is
to publish advisories.  Do this by maintaining a file for each CVE fixed
in the advisories directory in the source tree.  Links to the advisories
can then be shared as:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-YYYY-NNNN

The file format at the moment is rudimentary and derives from the git
commit format, i.e. a subject line and a potentially multi-paragraph
description and then tags to describe some meta information.  This is a
loose format at the moment and could change as we evolve this.

Also add a script process-fixed-cves.sh that processes these advisories
and generates a list to add to NEWS at release time.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
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@@ -75,25 +75,11 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 Security related changes:
 
-  CVE-2023-4527: If the system is configured in no-aaaa mode via
-  /etc/resolv.conf, getaddrinfo is called for the AF_UNSPEC address
-  family, and a DNS response is received over TCP that is larger than
-  2048 bytes, getaddrinfo may potentially disclose stack contents via
-  the returned address data, or crash.
-
-  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.
-
-  CVE-2023-4911: If a tunable of the form NAME=NAME=VAL is passed in the
-  environment of a setuid program and NAME is valid, it may result in a
-  buffer overflow, which could be exploited to achieve escalated
-  privileges.  This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.34.
+The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
+found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
+
+  [The release manager will add the list generated by
+  scripts/process-fixed-cves.sh just before the release.]
 
 The following bugs are resolved with this release: