CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc

[Tommi Pernila]

Hi,

as Shawn types faster then me...

the libc issue has been found from glibc which is not used in the BSD
family.
This is the affected libc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library

What FreeBSD uses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_libc

-Tommi


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:24 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> It is around now in the media also for non-OS developers: CVE-2015-7547
> describes a bug in libc which is supposed to affects all Linux versions.
>
> big price question: is FreeBSD > 9.3 also affected?
>
> Some reporters tell us that Linux/UNIX is affected, so sometimes this
> terminus
> is used to prevent the "Linux-nailed" view, but sometimes it also referes
> to
> everything else those people can not imagine but consider them Linux-like.
> So
> I'm a bit puzzled, since there is no report about *BSD is affected, too.
>
> Thanks in advance for shedding light onto CVE-2015-7547.
>
> Regards,
>
> oh
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