Am Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:40:03 -0500 Shawn Webb <shawn.w...@hardenedbsd.org> schrieb:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 02:24:10PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > It is around now in the media also for non-OS developers: CVE-2015-7547 > > describes a bug in libc which is supposed to affects all Linux versions. > > > > big price question: is FreeBSD > 9.3 also affected? > > > > Some reporters tell us that Linux/UNIX is affected, so sometimes this > > terminus > > is used to prevent the "Linux-nailed" view, but sometimes it also referes to > > everything else those people can not imagine but consider them Linux-like. > > So > > I'm a bit puzzled, since there is no report about *BSD is affected, too. > > > > Thanks in advance for shedding light onto CVE-2015-7547. > > The project that's vulnerable is called "glibc", not "libc". The BSDs > don't use glibc, so the phrase "nothing to see here" applies. glibc > isn't even available in FreeBSD's ports tree. > > TL;DR: FreeBSD is not affected by CVE-2015-7547. > > Thanks, > The article, I refere to, did only mention "libc" and they used the terminus "Linux/UNIX", and this is usually associted by that Linux-folks with the rest of the UNIX-alike world after their precious Linux. I followed then the explanation of the CVE and that stated very clearly, that it is GNU libc. So, I feel better now, but a pity of all that stuff in routers, switches, security appliances utilizing Linux and the penetrated glic. :-)
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