Update NEWS and ChangeLog for CVE-2017-15671

(cherry picked from commit 914c9994d27b80bc3b71c483e801a4f04e269ba6)

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 2017-09-08  Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
 
        [BZ #1062]
+       CVE-2017-15671
        * posix/Makefile (routines): Add globfree, globfree64, and
        glob_pattern_p.
        * posix/flexmember.h: New file.

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@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ Security related changes:
   from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either on the stack
   or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
 
+* CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
+  would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
+  processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
+  of service.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [20790] Fix rpcgen buffer overrun