A severe vulnerability recently uncovered in the widely-used GNU C Library (glibc) can cause severe security problems for websites if they don\u2019t patch soon.<\/p>\n
Ars Technica recently reported<\/a><\/strong> that the bug was introduced in 2008 in a function known as All versions of glibc after 2.9 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow bug that lets attackers remotely execute malicious code.<\/p>\n It can be exploited in a number of ways, such as when vulnerable devices or applications perform domain name lookups on attacker-controlled domains, or domain name servers.<\/p>\n Researchers have warned that tools such as SSH, sudo, wget, and curl are all known to be vulnerable.<\/p>\n Ars reported that one Linux-based platform that is not vulnerable is Android, with Google explaining that it uses a substitute for glibc called Bionic.<\/p>\n Hetzner has sent an alert to its custom hosting customers informing them about the vulnerability, and recommending that they reboot their servers.<\/p>\n All affected services on Hetzner\u2019s managed server platform will be restarted without the servers themselves being rebooted.<\/p>\n This is in order to minimise the impact on customers, and is in line with Debian\u2019s security advisory, Hetzner said.<\/p>\n Anonymous hacks and leaks South African government data<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The South African government passwords cracked in Anonymous database hack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Hetzner partners with DFA to offer greater ISP choice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\ngetaddrinfo()<\/code>, and affects all kinds of devices \u2014 not just web servers.<\/p>\nHetzner servers patched<\/h3>\n
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