Re: NIS library code exposure (Unix network exposure)

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Do you have any daemons that run as root and do networking? Are you sure that all of them check the length of the host name before passing it to gethostbyname?

[....] On Linux: ping [huge host name] works ftp [huge host name] works finger [huge host name] works nslookup [huge host name] ... CRUNCH (Segmentation fault)