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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238581
Summary: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs
Product: Fedora Core
Version: fc5
Platform: All
URL:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=42844
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: medium
Component: perl
AssignedTo: rnorwood(a)redhat.com
ReportedBy: peak(a)argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz
QAContact: dkl(a)redhat.com
CC: fedora-perl-devel-list(a)redhat.com
Description of problem:
Socket::inet_aton() does not the length of data returned by gethostbyname()
before copying it. See the link to PerlBug for details.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.8.8-4 (other versions are affected as well)
How reproducible:
Easily when you LD_PRELOAD a broken implementation of gethostbyname(). :)
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