On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 11:12 +0000, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> Sounds like a pretty serious one, proof of concept involved an email
> sent to a Exim mail server to get a remote shell.
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/27/glibc_ghost_vulnerability/
> 

Oh dear.

Why Oh Why do people use strcpy() etc., rather than strncpy() etc.?

Never mind security, that just sensible defensive programming!

Sheesh!

G.


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