From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
To: libc-stable@sourceware.org
Subject: [committed 2.36] Add NEWS entry for CVE-2022-39046
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 09:40:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220906134012.637725-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org> (raw)
(cherry picked from commit 76fe56020e7ef354685b2284580ac1630c078a2b)
---
NEWS | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 757ded85e0..10a7613f09 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ using `glibc' in the "product" field.
\f
Version 2.36.1
+Security related changes:
+
+ CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
+ string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
+ heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
+ portion of the contents of the heap.
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[28846] CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
--
2.37.2
reply other threads:[~2022-09-06 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20220906134012.637725-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org \
--to=siddhesh@sourceware.org \
--cc=libc-stable@sourceware.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).