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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Version 2.19.1
15946, 16545, 16574, 16623, 16657, 16695, 16743, 16758, 16759, 16760,
16878, 16882, 16885, 16916, 16932, 16943, 16958, 17048, 17062, 17069,
17079, 17137, 17153, 17213, 17263, 17269, 17325, 17555, 17905, 18007,
- 18032, 18080, 18240, 18287, 18508, 18905, 19879.
+ 18032, 18080, 18240, 18287, 18508, 18905, 19779, 19879.
* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ Version 2.19.1
alloca call (in the form of a call to strdupa), leading to a stack
overflow (stack exhaustion) and a crash if getnetbyname is invoked
on a very long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
+
+* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
+ called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
+ Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
Version 2.19