Add NEWS entry for CVE-2022-39046

(cherry picked from commit 76fe56020e7ef354685b2284580ac1630c078a2b)

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 Version 2.36.1
 
+Security related changes:
+
+  CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
+  string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
+  heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
+  portion of the contents of the heap.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [28846] CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning