Ghost gethost attack

[Brandon Vincent]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Brandon Vincent
<Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu> wrote:
> Can you post the output of: "dpkg -s eglibc"?
>
> You are looking for a version that is 2.15-0ubuntu10.10 or higher.

Actually that command should be "dpkg -s libc6".

You can also compile and run a test to verify if you are vulnerable.

wget https://webshare.uchicago.edu/orgs/ITServices/itsec/Downloads/GHOST.c
gcc GHOST.c -o GHOST
./GHOST

Brandon Vincent