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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 170aed2edb..8d08cd5cd7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ Version 2.20 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 |