GNU C library

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2015
The GHOST vulnerability is a threat to critical business applications

Researchers at Veracode discovered that nearly 41% of enterprise applications using GNU C Library employ the Ghost-ridden ‘gethostbyname’ function. GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability, named as the GHOST vulnerability, was released by Qualys Guard on 27th January 2015. Severity of this vulnerability is “CRITICAL” and listed in CVE database as CVE-2015-0235. Vulnerability is termed as […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2015
Ghost Remote Code Execution Vulnerability scares the Linux community

The Linux GNU C Library (glibc) versions prior to 2.18 are affected by the GHOST remote code execution vulnerability present in the ‘gethostbyname’ function. A new critical vulnerability is threatening the Linux community, the flaw affects the glibc GNU C library. The vulnerability is present in all Linux systems dating back to 2000 and could […]