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Critical security bug in glibc affects South African websites

Thread starter Jan
Start date Feb 17, 2016

Jan

Who's the Boss?

Staff member

Feb 17, 2016

#1

Critical security bug hits South African websites

Many Linux-hosted websites, including those hosted in South Africa, are vulnerable to a “potentially catastrophic” flaw in glibc.

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kianm

Honorary Master

Feb 17, 2016

#2

Critical security bug hits [-]South African [/-] websites

Better title

ponder

Honorary Master

Feb 17, 2016

#3

Two nice articles,
https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.za/2016/02/cve-2015-7547-glibc-getaddrinfo-stack.html
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...zzying-number-of-apps-and-devices-vulnerable/

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

DrJohnZoidberg

Honorary Master

Feb 17, 2016

#4

Just updated my Proxmox server and its VMs.

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