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Re: Ghost vulnerability

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Date Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:08:22 +1100
Subject Re: Ghost vulnerability
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
> Anyways, here's an example calling gethostbyname directly in python:
>
> from ctypes import CDLL
> o = CDLL('libc.so.6')
> for i in range(0, 2500):
>     o.gethostbyname('0'*i)
>
> I don't have a vulnerable system to test on any more though.

That bombs on my internal disk server, which is said to be vulnerable
using the C implementation.

ChrisA

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  Re: Ghost vulnerability Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-03 15:38 +1100
  Re: Ghost vulnerability Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-02-03 11:53 +0200
    Re: Ghost vulnerability Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-03 22:19 +1100
      Re: Ghost vulnerability Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-03 10:31 -0700
      Re: Ghost vulnerability Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-02-03 21:38 +0200
        Re: Ghost vulnerability Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-04 09:08 +1100
        Re: Ghost vulnerability Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-04 13:13 +1100
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