[Fsuk-manchester] GNU C Library getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow

[Michael Dorrington]

Thanks to Jonathan Davis and Simon Ward posting to the list about this
issue.  Note this affects computers even if they are "clients" such as
desktops, laptops and so on.  This is a very serious vulnerability but
the distros have release fixed packages so, as long as your distro is in
support, you should just need to install your distros updates and then
reboot.  You should do this as soon as possible.

Useful links:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/16/glibc_linux_dns_vulernability/

https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/cve-2015-7547-glibc-getaddrinfo-stack.html

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00416.html

Cheers,
M.

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