From 73d4ce728a59deb2fd18969e559769b3f590fac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:38:07 -0400 Subject: Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar (cherry picked from commit fd134feba35fa839018965733b34d28a09a075dd) --- NEWS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 94adcee263..36da15a922 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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. + Version 2.35 -- cgit 1.4.1