GHOST: critical glibc update (CVE-2015-0235) in gethostbyname() calls Mattias Geniar, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - last modified: Thursday, January 29, 2015 A very serious security issue has been found and patched: CVE-2015-0235 nicknamed "Ghost". The security bug A heap-based buffer overflow was found in glibc's __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function, which is used by the gethostbyname() and gethos
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