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@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ Version 2.20.1
called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
+* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
+ could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
+ overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
+
* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation