From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:38:07 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6445dc94da185b3d1ee283f0ca0a34c4e1986cc;p=thirdparty%2Fglibc.git Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar (cherry picked from commit fd134feba35fa839018965733b34d28a09a075dd) --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dfee278a9ca..f1b1b0a3b43 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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