[committed 2.36] Add NEWS entry for CVE-2022-39046
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh@sourceware.org
Tue Sep 6 13:40:12 GMT 2022
(cherry picked from commit 76fe56020e7ef354685b2284580ac1630c078a2b)
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NEWS | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 757ded85e0..10a7613f09 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ using `glibc' in the "product" field.
Version 2.36.1
+Security related changes:
+
+ CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
+ string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
+ heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
+ portion of the contents of the heap.
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[28846] CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
--
2.37.2
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