Record CVE-2019-9169 in NEWS and ChangeLog [BZ #24114]

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 2019-01-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+       CVE-2019-9169
        regex: fix read overrun [BZ #24114]
        Problem found by AddressSanitizer, reported by Hongxu Chen in:
        https://debbugs.gnu.org/34140

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@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ Security related changes:
   memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
   zero.  Reported by H.J. Lu.
 
+  CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
+  via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
+  over-read.  Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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