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Message-ID: <54C7D8F3.3020503@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:29:07 +0100
From: Sven Kieske <svenkieske@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Qualys Security Advisory CVE-2015-0235 - GHOST:
 glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow

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On 27.01.2015 19:20, Qualys Security Advisory wrote:
> Here is a list of potential targets that we investigated (they all
> call gethostbyname, one way or another), but to the best of our
> knowledge, the buffer overflow cannot be triggered in any of them:
> 
> apache, cups, dovecot, gnupg, isc-dhcp, lighttpd, mariadb/mysql, 
> nfs-utils, nginx, nodejs, openldap, openssh, postfix, proftpd, 
> pure-ftpd, rsyslog, samba, sendmail, sysklogd, syslog-ng,
> tcp_wrappers, vsftpd, xinetd.
> 
> That being said, we believe it would be interesting if other
> people could have a look, just in case we missed something.

Here is a potential list from openhub.net code search:

https://code.openhub.net/search?p=0&s=gethostbyname&p=0

might be worth investigating

kind regards

Sven
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