GHOST: glibc vulnerability

Hello,



A vulnerability has been found in glibc:

http://ift.tt/1D6g3xY



it's a buffer overflow issue with the gethostname function (it does dns lookups).



Fix instructions can be found in this thread:

http://ift.tt/1CNIrHA



Basically, update glibc with your system's package manager, and restart your services.



Full recompile of the services shouldn't be required if just glibc is updated.

If unsure, run ./build update; ./build all d;



John

GHOST: glibc vulnerability