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NEWS update for CVE-2016-5417

Message ID f62d73d2-b294-0160-372c-7b3993bf73df@redhat.com
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Florian Weimer July 29, 2016, 9:36 p.m. UTC 
CVE-2016-5417 was assigned to bug 19257.

Thanks,
Florian
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commit fab382315ad3be7c773aaf7ca49c053cf91755fe
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 29 17:34:17 2016 -0400

    CVE-2016-5417 was assigned to bug 19257

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@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@  Security related changes:
   flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages.  Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
   alloca plugin for GCC.  (CVE-2016-4429)
 
+* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
+  leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
+  and exits.  Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
+  memory exhaustion.  Reported by Matthias Schiffer.  (CVE-2016-5417)
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by