For those who are interested, an old patch to glibc remains in Slackware-14.1 and prevents the proof of concept exploitation of glibc.
Rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > "According to glibc developers, the vulnerable code was initially added in > May 2008 as part of the development for glibc 2.9. All versions from 2.9 > (originally released November 2008) to 2.22 appear to be affected." > > Most other distros patched this almost a week ago, yet no updates for us > slackware'rs? it doesn't really affect us see here from a post by Pat himself http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/glibc-security-patch-cve-2015-7547-a-4175572402/#post5501886 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
