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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:50:28 +0100
From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>
Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>,
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Subject: Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc
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Hi!

> The project that's vulnerable is called "glibc", not "libc". The BSDs
> don't use glibc, so the phrase "nothing to see here" applies. glibc
> isn't even available in FreeBSD's ports tree.
> 
> TL;DR: FreeBSD is not affected by CVE-2015-7547.

A short note on the www.freebsd.org website would probably be helpful,
as this case will produce a lot of noise.

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