Bug#833302: glibc: CVE-2016-5417: per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6 nameservers

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Aurelien,

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:14:26AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> control: reassign -1 libc6
> control: severity 818178 important
> control: forcemerge 818178 -1
> 
> On 2016-08-02 19:54, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Source: glibc
> > Version: 2.23-4
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream
> > Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the following vulnerability was published for glibc.
> > 
> > CVE-2016-5417[0]:
> > per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6 nameservers
> 
> Before being identified as a security issue, it has been reported as bug
> #818178. Merging the bugs.

Thanks, and apologies, have missed that.

Regards,
Salvatore