[2.31 COMMITTED 2/2] Add NEWS entry for CVE-2016-10228 (bug 19519)

Aurelien Jarno aurelien@aurel32.net
Mon Aug 3 21:40:56 GMT 2020


(cherry picked from commit 17a0126abf02955cabf6256c67f8f9462a64163f)
---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 898501b1536..d3ffb822942 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
 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.  Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
+
   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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