[PATCH] Add NEWS entry for CVE-2016-10228 (bug 19519)

Aurelien Jarno aurelien@aurel32.net
Thu Jul 30 08:08:30 GMT 2020


---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1ef4a0a7a47..1625e55cccb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 Security related changes:
 
+  CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
+  invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
+  sequences.
+
   CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
   corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument.  Reported by Guido
   Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
-- 
2.27.0



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