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[Bug network/12926] getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
- From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:21:54 +0000
- Subject: [Bug network/12926] getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
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- References: <bug-12926-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12926
--- Comment #13 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #11)
> How can we assume all supported kernels from 2.6.32 and up are not
> vulnerable? AFAIK glibc has to be defensive in this case.
We could probably make an exception here. In general, I really dislike the
idea of working around kernel security bugs, but this might be an exception.
(Although there are likely corner cases the libc check won't cover.)
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