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6530, 14195, 14547, 14459, 14476, 14562, 14621, 14648, 14699, 14756, 14831,
15078, 15754, 15755, 16072, 17048, 17137, 17187, 17325.
+* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
+ copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
+ deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
+ the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
+ invocation.
+
* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which