[glibc/release/2.32/master] NEWS: Mention CVE-2021-35942

Dmitry Levin ldv@sourceware.org
Fri Oct 7 08:20:22 GMT 2022


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=cdf5ee727d831c0bd21b54da83ca9b03e77cead0

commit cdf5ee727d831c0bd21b54da83ca9b03e77cead0
Author: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 4 08:00:00 2022 +0000

    NEWS: Mention CVE-2021-35942
    
    Add a NEWS entry for the fix that was backported by commit
    27e892f6608e9d0da71884bb1422a735f6062850.

Diff:
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 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7bd476deb6..078891a5a4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Security related changes:
   issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
   attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
 
+  CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
+  parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
+  Reported by Philippe Antoine.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [20019] NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to uninitialized GOT


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