From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:38:07 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS
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Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS

These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
(cherry picked from commit fd134feba35fa839018965733b34d28a09a075dd)
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 94adcee263a..36da15a9225 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -86,6 +86,17 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release:
   [30804] F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for powerpc64 with
     -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
 
+Security related changes:
+
+  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.
+
 
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