[Python-Dev] Buffer overflow bug in GNU C's getaddrinfo()
Andrew Barnert
abarnert at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 17 15:09:59 EST 2016
On Feb 17, 2016, at 10:44, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
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> Is this something that we need to worry about?
>
> Extremely severe bug leaves dizzying number of software and devices vulnerable
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/extremely-severe-bug-leaves-dizzying-number-of-apps-and-devices-vulnerable/
Is there a workaround that Python and/or Python apps should be doing, or is this just a matter of everyone on glibc 2.9+ needs to update their glibc?
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