0025-Document-CVE-2023-4806-and-CVE-2023-5156-in-NEWS.patch

From f6445dc94da185b3d1ee283f0ca0a34c4e1986cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:38:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
(cherry picked from commit fd134feba35fa839018965733b34d28a09a075dd)
---
 NEWS | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dfee278a9c..f1b1b0a3b4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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
-- 
2.42.0