Add NEWS entry for CVE-2016-6323

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2016-08-15 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
[BZ #20435]
CVE-2016-6323
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setcontext.S (__startcontext): Mark
as .cantunwind.

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Security related changes:
[Add security related changes here]
On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
(denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
by Andreas Schwab.
The following bugs are resolved with this release: