[COMMITTED] Mention CVE-2014-4043 in NEWS

Allan McRae allan@archlinux.org
Sat Jun 21 07:27:00 GMT 2014


---
 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  <allan@archlinux.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Mention CVE-2014-4043.
+
 2014-06-20  Roland McGrath  <roland@hack.frob.com>
 
 	* 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
 
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