From cdf5ee727d831c0bd21b54da83ca9b03e77cead0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dmitry V. Levin" Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0000 Subject: NEWS: Mention CVE-2021-35942 Add a NEWS entry for the fix that was backported by commit 27e892f6608e9d0da71884bb1422a735f6062850. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7bd476deb6..078891a5a4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Security related changes: issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread attribute with a non-default affinity mask. + CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional + parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash. + Reported by Philippe Antoine. + The following bugs are resolved with this release: [20019] NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to uninitialized GOT -- cgit 1.4.1