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Posted to commits@commons.apache.org by bo...@apache.org on 2017/08/01 18:32:44 UTC

svn commit: r20704 - /release/commons/email/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Author: bodewig
Date: Tue Aug  1 18:32:44 2017
New Revision: 20704

Log:
mention CVE in Commons Email's release notes

Modified:
    release/commons/email/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Modified: release/commons/email/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
==============================================================================
--- release/commons/email/RELEASE-NOTES.txt (original)
+++ release/commons/email/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Tue Aug  1 18:32:44 2017
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-                         Commons Email Package
+                          Apache Commons Email
                               Version 1.5
                              Release Notes
 
@@ -15,8 +15,12 @@ downloads, reports, and bug status:
 
 http://commons.apache.org/email/
 
-This is a major release which adds some new features and fixes several bugs
-present in the 1.4.0 release. All current users are encouraged to upgrade.
+This is a major and security bugfix release which adds some new
+features and fixes several bugs present in the 1.4 release. All
+current users are encouraged to upgrade.
+
+For the security bugfix see
+https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-email/security-reports.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Commons_Email_1.5
 
 CHANGES FROM 1.4:
 -----------------
@@ -55,6 +59,9 @@ Issue: EMAIL-154. Thanks to Ken Geis, Ba
 * DataSourceClassPathResolver doesn't close InputStream when resolving resources
 Issue: EMAIL-167. Thanks to Lucian Burja.
 
+* CVE-2017-9801 - stripped all line-breaks from subjects in order to
+  prevent SMTP header injection.
+
 CHANGES FROM 1.3.3:
 -----------------
 
@@ -315,4 +322,4 @@ Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 users must
 JavaMail and JAF indicated above are available to their applications;
 the J2EE 1.4 specification only requires earlier versions.
 
-Earlier versions of J2EE are not supported.
\ No newline at end of file
+Earlier versions of J2EE are not supported.