From 60c57b8467f11e334e7c7fd07d588c248e93d952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:50:49 -0400 Subject: Move CVE information into advisories directory One of the requirements to becoming a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) is to publish advisories. Do this by maintaining a file for each CVE fixed in the advisories directory in the source tree. Links to the advisories can then be shared as: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-YYYY-NNNN The file format at the moment is rudimentary and derives from the git commit format, i.e. a subject line and a potentially multi-paragraph description and then tags to describe some meta information. This is a loose format at the moment and could change as we evolve this. Also add a script process-fixed-cves.sh that processes these advisories and generates a list to add to NEWS at release time. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar --- NEWS | 24 +++++------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8c1c149f91..3f0dee4fcc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -75,25 +75,11 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements: Security related changes: - CVE-2023-4527: If the system is configured in no-aaaa mode via - /etc/resolv.conf, getaddrinfo is called for the AF_UNSPEC address - family, and a DNS response is received over TCP that is larger than - 2048 bytes, getaddrinfo may potentially disclose stack contents via - the returned address data, or crash. - - 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. - - CVE-2023-4911: If a tunable of the form NAME=NAME=VAL is passed in the - environment of a setuid program and NAME is valid, it may result in a - buffer overflow, which could be exploited to achieve escalated - privileges. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.34. +The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be +found in the advisories directory of the release tarball: + + [The release manager will add the list generated by + scripts/process-fixed-cves.sh just before the release.] The following bugs are resolved with this release: -- cgit 1.4.1