From: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: NEWS: Mention CVE-2021-35942
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NEWS: Mention CVE-2021-35942

Add a NEWS entry for the fix that was backported by commit
27e892f6608e9d0da71884bb1422a735f6062850.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7bd476deb65..078891a5a41 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Security related changes:
   issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
   attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
 
+  CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
+  parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
+  Reported by Philippe Antoine.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [20019] NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to uninitialized GOT