~ chicken-core (chicken-5) 724f6866bb809c140b4a0b39e51630baf1944c93
commit 724f6866bb809c140b4a0b39e51630baf1944c93 Author: Peter Bex <peter@more-magic.net> AuthorDate: Fri Aug 19 20:39:33 2016 +0200 Commit: Peter Bex <peter@more-magic.net> CommitDate: Fri Aug 19 20:39:33 2016 +0200 Add CVE-2016-683[01] for process-spawn/process-execute bugs to NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b1a110de..d64c8189 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,14 @@ 4.11.1 - Security fixes - - Fix buffer overrun due to excessively long argument or - environment lists in process-execute and process-spawn (#1308). + - CVE-2016-6830: Fix buffer overrun due to excessively long argument + or environment lists in process-execute and process-spawn (#1308). This also removes unnecessary limitations on the length of these lists (thanks to Vasilij Schneidermann). + - CVE-2016-6831: Fix memory leak in process-execute and + process-spawn. If, during argument and environment list + processing, a list item isn't a string, an exception is thrown, + in which case previously malloc()ed strings weren't freed. - Compiler: - define-constant now correctly keeps symbol values quoted.Trap