GHOST, a critical Linux security hole, is revealed

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mklym
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GHOST, a critical Linux security hole, is revealed

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Summary:
This security hole, which impacts many older versions of Linux and some current ones, should be patched as soon as possible.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/critical-l ... TRE17cfd61

Thanks to ajkula66 for the original post about this security hole.
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Re: GHOST, a critical Linux security hole, is revealed

#2 Post by UNCNDL1 »

Morgan, thank you for this information.
I like the ending words of the article you linked: "My advice to you is to now, not later today, now, update your Linux system as soon as possible. After patching it, you should then reboot the system. I know for Linux it's rarely needed to reboot, but since gethostbyname is called on by so many core processes, such as auditd, dbus-daem, dhclient, init, master, mysqld, rsyslogd, sshd, udevd, and xinetd, you want to make absolutely sure that all your system's running programs are using the patched code."
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Re: GHOST, a critical Linux security hole, is revealed

#3 Post by kode-niner »

I've been patching servers all week over this. Some older ones are impossible to upgrade and are being retired.
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