Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238581 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@xxxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: peak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx QAContact: dkl@xxxxxxxxxx CC: fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx 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(). :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
