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Re: [PATCH] Add NEWS entry for CVE-2020-10029 (bug 25487)


* Aurelien Jarno:

> From what I understand, part of the NEWS file is filled automatically
> just before releases, but it's not the case for the security related
> changes. In any case we need to provide one when backporting the patch
> to other branches, so here is a proposal below.

Yes, thanks for doing that.  I didn't get around to it yesterday.

> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 77631ca7071..4623984d36d 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
>  
>  Security related changes:
>  
> -  [Add security related changes here]
> +  CVE-2020-10029: The sinl function on x86 targets suffered from stack
> +  corruption when it was passed a pseudo-zero argument.  Reported by
> +  Guido Vranken.

As far as I know, this is not restricted to sinl, any function which
performs range reduction is affected.

Guido should comment on the attribution.  I strongly prefer crediting
people, not organizations, but other glibc developers do not share my
reservations in this area.

Thanks,
Florian


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