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		yeukhon on Jan 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer ... Is Ubuntu 12.04 vulnerable to this? >> this vulnerability affects many systems from Linux glibc-2.2 version published on 10 November 2000. >> a fixed was pushed to glibc-2.17 et glibc-2.18 Ran dpkg -l libc6 on 12.04.5 shows it's 2.15. So anything before 2.17? /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 GNU C Library (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10.7) stable release version 2.15, by Roland McGrath et al.

href on Jan 27, 2015 | [–]

According to Canonical it is: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2485-1/

jerematasno on Jan 28, 2015 | [–]

Blog post coming soon, but 12.04 is vulnerable, but has a patch available.

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