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		kokey on March 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happens when you type Google.com into your br... I mentioned the gethostbyname call during an interview with this question. The interviewer reminded me that gethostbyname was deprecated and we had a short discussion about the recently discovered vulnerability in the glibc implementation of it.

fafner on March 12, 2015 [–]

It has been obsoleted in favour of getnameinfo. (The vulnerability in glibc has been fixed.)

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