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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:43:17 +0200
From:      Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila@iki.fi>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc
Message-ID:  <CABHD1wSww%2B8ooksvk7oz4nY7W96gUmW68XDGHimugXPEDT0m%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160217142410.18748906@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de>
References:  <20160217142410.18748906@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de>

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Hi,

as Shawn types faster then me...

the libc issue has been found from glibc which is not used in the BSD
family.
This is the affected libc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library

What FreeBSD uses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_libc

-Tommi


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:24 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> It is around now in the media also for non-OS developers: CVE-2015-7547
> describes a bug in libc which is supposed to affects all Linux versions.
>
> big price question: is FreeBSD > 9.3 also affected?
>
> Some reporters tell us that Linux/UNIX is affected, so sometimes this
> terminus
> is used to prevent the "Linux-nailed" view, but sometimes it also referes
> to
> everything else those people can not imagine but consider them Linux-like.
> So
> I'm a bit puzzled, since there is no report about *BSD is affected, too.
>
> Thanks in advance for shedding light onto CVE-2015-7547.
>
> Regards,
>
> oh
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