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authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2016-09-26 09:43:45 +0100
committerMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2016-09-26 10:25:13 +0100
commit87cd6f9253580866b13729d33fdd45205485b675 (patch)
tree0a9676f48451cb933ef58a676dc07986a10a0341
parentf8644220a05f75d51bbde627077cdf336e4d4592 (diff)
Updates CHANGES and NEWS for new release
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
-rw-r--r--CHANGES15
-rw-r--r--NEWS2
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 76b4974145..9b34c3a0af 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,7 +4,20 @@
Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [xx XXX xxxx]
- *)
+ *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes
+
+ The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a
+ message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to
+ store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a
+ dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to
+ write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a
+ crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
+
+ This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a.
+
+ This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki.
+ (CVE-2016-6309)
+ [Matt Caswell]
Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 66bade1e1e..fb26f42dfa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [under development]
- o
+ o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]