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Re: eglibc update for GHOST CVE-2015-0235



On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 13:39 +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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.  

There's a test in the disclosure here (section 4):

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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