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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2022-09-06 09:31:50 -0400
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2022-09-06 09:31:50 -0400
commit76fe56020e7ef354685b2284580ac1630c078a2b (patch)
tree9c710a31c2299f15bf8f64dc80b28d1453a1900a
parentdbb75513f5cf9285c77c9e55777c5c35b653f890 (diff)
Add NEWS entry for CVE-2022-39046
-rw-r--r--NEWS5
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@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
Security related changes:
- [Add security related changes here]
+ 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: