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Summary: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs Product: Fedora Core Version: fc5 Platform: All URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=42844 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: low Priority: medium Component: perl AssignedTo: rnorwood@redhat.com ReportedBy: peak@argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz QAContact: dkl@redhat.com CC: fedora-perl-devel-list@redhat.com
Description of problem: Socket::inet_aton() does not the length of data returned by gethostbyname() before copying it. See the link to PerlBug for details.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.8.8-4 (other versions are affected as well)
How reproducible: Easily when you LD_PRELOAD a broken implementation of gethostbyname(). :)
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Summary: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238581
bugzilla@redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product|Fedora Core |Fedora Version|fc5 |5
jpazdziora@redhat.com changed:
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------- Additional Comments From jpazdziora@redhat.com 2008-03-04 03:35 EST ------- This should be fixed once we move to perl 5.10 -- the fix is already in upstream's code.
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Summary: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238581
mmaslano@redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|rnorwood@redhat.com |mmaslano@redhat.com Version|5 |8
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Summary: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238581
------- Additional Comments From updates@fedoraproject.org 2008-03-20 05:14 EST ------- perl-5.8.8-38.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
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Summary: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238581
updates@fedoraproject.org changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ON_QA
------- Additional Comments From updates@fedoraproject.org 2008-03-21 18:07 EST ------- perl-5.8.8-38.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update perl'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2580
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Summary: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238581
------- Additional Comments From updates@fedoraproject.org 2008-03-26 13:12 EST ------- perl-5.8.8-38.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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