Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS

These are tracked in BZ #30884 and BZ #30843.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
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@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ Security related changes:
2048 bytes, getaddrinfo may potentially disclose stack contents via
the returned address data, or crash.
CVE-2023-4806: When an NSS plugin only implements the
_gethostbyname2_r and _getcanonname_r callbacks, getaddrinfo could use
memory that was freed during buffer resizing, potentially causing a
crash or read or write to arbitrary memory.
CVE-2023-5156: The fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced a memory leak when
an application calls getaddrinfo for AF_INET6 with AI_CANONNAME,
AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED flags set.
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[30723] posix_memalign repeatedly scans long bin lists