This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

NEWS update for CVE-2016-5417


CVE-2016-5417 was assigned to bug 19257.

Thanks,
Florian
commit fab382315ad3be7c773aaf7ca49c053cf91755fe
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 29 17:34:17 2016 -0400

    CVE-2016-5417 was assigned to bug 19257

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e2737d5..680f792 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ Security related changes:
   flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages.  Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
   alloca plugin for GCC.  (CVE-2016-4429)
 
+* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
+  leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
+  and exits.  Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
+  memory exhaustion.  Reported by Matthias Schiffer.  (CVE-2016-5417)
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]