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Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS
authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:38:07 +0000 (07:38 -0400)
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:15:46 +0000 (10:15 -0400)
These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
(cherry picked from commit fd134feba35fa839018965733b34d28a09a075dd)

NEWS

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@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ Security related changes:
   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.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [30723] posix_memalign repeatedly scans long bin lists