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@@ -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.
+
 
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