Re: Security Problem in MH 6.8.4

From: Alan Cox (alanat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 20 1998 - 12:09:45 PST

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> The Linux bug is definitely a security issue.  I suspect it to be in RedHat's
> implementation of libc.

The original glibc 2.0.5 had hostname bugs (discussed here a while ago), a
fix for those has been out for a while

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