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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2023-09-26 07:38:07 -0400
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2023-09-26 07:38:07 -0400
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Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS
These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
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@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ 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:
[The release manager will add the list generated by