GHOST glibc Security Vulnerability

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Red Hat Product Security is aware of a critical vulnerability in the glibc library. This vulnerability is commonly known as GHOST and has been assigned CVE-2015-0235.

GHOST is a 'buffer overflow' bug affecting the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() function calls in the glibc library. This vulnerability allows a remot...

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