Record CVE-2019-9169 in NEWS and ChangeLog [BZ #24114]

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 2019-01-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+       CVE-2019-9169
        regex: fix read overrun [BZ #24114]
        Problem found by AddressSanitizer, reported by Hongxu Chen in:
        https://debbugs.gnu.org/34140

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@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ Security related changes:
   CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
   addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
   or command injection issues in applications.
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+  CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
+  via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
+  over-read.  Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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