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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