[glibc] Document CVE-2026-6238

Siddhesh Poyarekar via Glibc-cvs <[email protected]>
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commit db5b939311710bd6cb9506cd7f61de054d3bdcee
Author: Siddhesh Poyarekar <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Apr 27 18:29:26 2026 -0400

    Document CVE-2026-6238
    
    Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <[email protected]>

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 advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0012 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0012 b/advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0012
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+Buffer overread in ns_printrrf with corrupted RDATA field
+
+The deprecated functions ns_printrrf, ns_printrr and fp_nquery in the
+GNU C Library version 2.2 and newer fail to validate the RDATA content
+against the RDATA length in a DNS response when processing LOC, CERT,
+TKEY or TSIG records, which may allow an attacker to craft a DNS
+response, causing a target application to crash or read uninitialized
+memory.
+
+These functions are for debugging only and hence not in the default path
+of code executed by the DNS resolver.  Further, they have been
+deprecated since version 2.34 and should not be used by any new
+applications.  Applications should consider porting away from these
+interfaces since they may be removed in future versions.
+
+CVE-Id: CVE-2026-6238
+Public-Date: 2026-04-11
+Vulnerable-Commit: b43b13ac2544b11f35be301d1589b51a8473e32b (2.1.1-735)
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