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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2014-06-21 17:23:55 +1000
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2014-09-05 22:44:07 +1000
commit29fd33140d964e0e08207ceecbf479b85658fcb8 (patch)
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parent8ec14bdc9c600cc273b242ebca6566fe15de107d (diff)
downloadglibc-29fd33140d964e0e08207ceecbf479b85658fcb8.tar.gz
Mention CVE-2014-4043 in NEWS
(cherry picked from commit d03efb2f979defd473955a455d66b949961d26b2) Conflicts: NEWS
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+2014-06-21 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
+
+ * NEWS: Mention CVE-2014-4043.
+
2014-06-12 Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* posix/spawn_faction_addopen.c: Include string.h.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ Version 2.19.1
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
16545, 16623, 16882, 16885, 16916, 16943, 16958, 17048.
+
+* 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.
Version 2.19