[COMMITTED 2.26 1/4] Update NEWS and ChangeLog for CVE-2017-15671

Aurelien Jarno aurelien@aurel32.net
Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2017


From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>

(cherry picked from commit 914c9994d27b80bc3b71c483e801a4f04e269ba6)
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 NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 359465ff3e..037b28cb9b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ Security related changes:
   on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
   Reported by Tim Rühsen.
 
+  CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
+  would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
+  processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
+  of service.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [16750] ldd: Never run file directly.
-- 
2.15.0



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