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GNU C Library master sources branch release/2.21/master updated. glibc-2.21-2-gc66e8b9


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commit c66e8b9e58603e92171cd87f9ad3759304f25255
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 6 16:30:15 2015 +0100

    NEWS: Also mention CVE-2015-1473

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 617cdbb..4b07474 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ Version 2.21
   17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
   17892.
 
-* CVE-2015-1472 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate too little
-  memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the allocated
-  buffer.  The implementation now correctly computes the required buffer
-  size when using malloc.
+* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
+  too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
+  allocated buffer.  The implementation now correctly computes the required
+  buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
+  intended.
 
 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
   machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were

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