X2Go Bug report logs - #778
affected by CVE 2015-0235: Stop using gethosbyname()

Package: nx-libs; Maintainer for nx-libs is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>;

Reported by: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 07:05:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
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Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#778: affected by CVE 2015-0235: Stop using
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On  So 01 Feb 2015 13:40:59 CET, Nable wrote:

> Hi, Mike!
>
> I'm looking at this and previous bug (#777) and can't stop wondering
> whether applications should really contain workarounds for bugs in
> system libraries. Isn't it better to just depend on newer version
> of library (that has fixes for currently known bugs)?
>
> There are a lot of older bugs in glibc (that are fixed in current
> version), does it mean that applications should be bloated with
> workarounds for such bugs just in order to work more safely on machines
> where users don't pay enough attention to updates?

That is a true way of reasoning...

However, gethostbyname is deprecated in glibc and not really IPv4/IPv6  
compliant [1].

Mike

[1] http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/syscalls.html#getaddrinfo

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