[PLUG] glibc vulnerability and Slackware

[Rich Shepard]

   For those who are interested, an old patch to glibc remains in
Slackware-14.1 and prevents the proof of concept exploitation of glibc.

Rich

---------- Forwarded message ----------
> "According to glibc developers, the vulnerable code was initially added in
> May 2008 as part of the development for glibc 2.9. All versions from 2.9
> (originally released November 2008) to 2.22 appear to be affected."
>
> Most other distros patched this almost a week ago, yet no updates for us
> slackware'rs?

it doesn't really affect us
see here from a post by Pat himself
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/glibc-security-patch-cve-2015-7547-a-4175572402/#post5501886