Researchers at Qualys recently revealed a critical vulnerability in the Linux GNU C Library (glibc), that allows attackers to remotely take control of an entire system without having any prior knowledge of system credentials. The vulnerability is known as GHOST (CVE-2015-0235) as it can be triggered by the gethostbyname functions. It affects many systems built on Linux starting with glibc-2.2 released on November 10, 2000. Qualys researchers also identified a number of factors...
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