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Re: eglibc update for GHOST CVE-2015-0235



On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 23:47 +0100, Nicolas Chipaux wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> For our internal use at Gandi.net, we created a source package for eglibc 
> with the fix for the CVE 2015-0235 taken from the eglibc package from 
> Debian wheezy 2.13-38+deb7u7 : any/cvs-gethostbyname.diff. In order to 
> release quickly, we disabled the test in this patch during the build.
> 
> You can find the three files of the source package at this URL : 
>     http://as29169.net/debian/

I'm also looking at this, the thing I'm stuck on is creating a test that
verified the patch was correctly included.  That is, the test in the
patch isn't enough to show the issue in the old code.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba



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