gethostbyname

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2015
The GHOST vulnerability is a threat to critical business applications

Researchers at Veracode discovered that nearly 41% of enterprise applications using GNU C Library employ the Ghost-ridden ‘gethostbyname’ function. GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability, named as the GHOST vulnerability, was released by Qualys Guard on 27th January 2015. Severity of this vulnerability is “CRITICAL” and listed in CVE database as CVE-2015-0235. Vulnerability is termed as […]