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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e2737d5f47..680f792685 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ Security related changes: flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez' alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429) +* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory + leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup, + and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to + memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417) + The following bugs are resolved with this release: [The release manager will add the list generated by |