[PATCH] NEWS: Document CVE-2023-25139.
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Tue Feb 7 23:39:02 GMT 2023
On 2/6/23 13:36, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:36 AM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> ---
>> NEWS | 7 ++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>> index b227e72c9c..a7979a9cd3 100644
>> --- a/NEWS
>> +++ b/NEWS
>> @@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
>>
>> Security related changes:
>>
>> - [Add security related changes here]
>> + CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
>> + format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
>> + minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
>> + reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
>> + buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
>> + in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
>>
>
> LGTM.
>
> Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
>
Thanks. Pushed. I'm backporting to release/2.37/master right now.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
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