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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:45:17 -0800
From: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@...lys.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GHOST gethostbyname() heap overflow in glibc
(CVE-2015-0235)
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 08:45:12PM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> He found out that apparently the ghost image appeared on the Qualys
> website on October 2.
What?! No idea where this image came from, who created it, or why, or
when. What is absolutely certain is that October 2 has nothing to do
with this bug, simply because the first time someone here had the idea
of calling it "GHOST" was on Friday evening! Yes, Friday, January 23,
2015!
> The GHOST name was not yet in the (almost final) advisory draft sent to
> the linux-distros list on January 18, nor was there any other name for
> this vulnerability in there.
Exactly, thank you! And if some of you conspiracy theorists need more
proof, even SuSE's Bugzilla entry is still referencing the original name
of our proof-of-concept (charged-ghbn.c), which appeared in the advisory
draft we sent to the linux-distros mailing-list last week:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913646
In the end, some information was leaked before the Coordinated Release
Date (which was January 27, 2015 at 18:00 UTC), but it was just a few
hours early. And again, we sincerely apologize.
Please please please, less pointless bickering, more code auditing.
Thank you.
--
the "technical folks"
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