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| author |   Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> | 2023-09-26 07:38:07 -0400 |
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| committer |   Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> | 2023-09-27 11:30:31 +0200 |
| commit | 5687086280183623d143816a27e640b6675b89d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 2039f34eafdf9de8a34c167daf45f56664b25b31 | |
| parent | Fix leak in getaddrinfo introduced by the fix for CVE-2023-4806 [BZ #30843] (diff) | |
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Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWSgentoo/glibc-2.38-4
These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
(cherry picked from commit fd134feba35fa839018965733b34d28a09a075dd)
(cherry picked from commit f6445dc94da185b3d1ee283f0ca0a34c4e1986cc)
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@@ -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 |