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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:19:07 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
Cc:        Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1602170713560.44372@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160217135028.GR26283@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <20160217142410.18748906@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <20160217134003.GB57405@mutt-hardenedbsd> <20160217135028.GR26283@home.opsec.eu>

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On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Kurt Jaeger wrote:

> 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.

What about software that uses emulators/linux_base?

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

Maybe a short article like we did for leap seconds?
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/leap-seconds/article.html

I can help with that.



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