[LINK] glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow

[Brenda Aynsley]

On 19/02/16 08:04, David Boxall wrote:
> <https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/cve-2015-7547-glibc-getaddrinfo-stack.html>
>> Our initial investigations showed that the issue affected all the
>> versions of glibc since 2.9. You should definitely update if you are
>> on an older version though.
>
came across this yesterday ...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-patches-severe-glibc-dns-vulnerability-in-all-supported-ubuntu-oses-500509.shtml

and I understand red hat has also updated to remove threat.

cheers
brenda

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