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A comment on CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow. Parent comment

Re:CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow by beagle3 on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @11:51PM (#8958186)
... or not necessarily safe, as people here claim that getaddrinfo() uses gethostbyname() under the covers.

"UseDNS no" in your sshd_config is a good idea in general.

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