[committed 2.38 2/2] Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh@sourceware.org
Tue Sep 26 22:54:32 GMT 2023
These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
(cherry picked from commit fd134feba35fa839018965733b34d28a09a075dd)
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NEWS | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dfee278a9c..f1b1b0a3b4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ Security related changes:
2048 bytes, getaddrinfo may potentially disclose stack contents via
the returned address data, or crash.
+ CVE-2023-4806: When an NSS plugin only implements the
+ _gethostbyname2_r and _getcanonname_r callbacks, getaddrinfo could use
+ memory that was freed during buffer resizing, potentially causing a
+ crash or read or write to arbitrary memory.
+
+ CVE-2023-5156: The fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced a memory leak when
+ an application calls getaddrinfo for AF_INET6 with AI_CANONNAME,
+ AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED flags set.
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[30723] posix_memalign repeatedly scans long bin lists
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