Ghost gethost attack

[Brandon Vincent]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:10 PM, American Sentry Systems, Inc.
<mail at americansentry.net> wrote:
> I just read in a security tade journal about the "Ghost" attach.  I seems
> that it stems from the glibc library.  I was surprised that not much was
> mentioned about since the security concerns were announced in January, 2015.
> It seems that Ubuntu 14.04 fixed the issue but 12.04 did not.  Between that
> I did not see clear documentation.

GHOST has been patched in support Ubuntu versions, including 12.04.

Can you post the output of: "dpkg -s eglibc"?

You are looking for a version that is 2.15-0ubuntu10.10 or higher.

Brandon Vincent