From patchwork Sat Jun 21 07:27:27 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Allan McRae X-Patchwork-Id: 1646 Received: (qmail 9988 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2014 07:27:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Delivered-To: mailing list libc-alpha@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 9973 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jun 2014 07:27:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, SPF_PASS, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: gerolde.archlinux.org From: Allan McRae To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: [COMMITTED] Mention CVE-2014-4043 in NEWS Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:27:27 +1000 Message-Id: <1403335647-12000-1-git-send-email-allan@archlinux.org> --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ NEWS | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 047fa62..67b7896 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2014-06-21 Allan McRae + + * NEWS: Mention CVE-2014-4043. + 2014-06-20 Roland McGrath * nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/smp.h: Moved ... diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 170aed2..8d08cd5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ Version 2.20 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code is not built. + +* 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