diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index aacf0e62a93..67bc8dc6b9f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- subprocess: Prevent a possible double close of parent pipe fds when the
+  subprocess exec runs into an error.  Prevent a regular multi-close of the
+  /dev/null fd when any of stdin, stdout and stderr was set to DEVNULL.
+
 - Issue #16102: Make uuid._netbios_getnode() work again on Python 3.
 
 - Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and