Lisi Reisz: > On Wednesday 28 January 2015 13:25:20 i...@thargoid.co.uk wrote: >>> >>> https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 >>> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/283 >>> >>> especially the second link mention network-facing software which is not >>> vulnerable due to proper sanitization out of glibc. >> >> Indeed, however you will notice that the list on the second link does >> not contain exim, the default SMTP server software for debian. This was >> used for proof-of-concept code. >> >> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/274 > > So Wheezy users who use Exim are at risk?
Yes.
> But it surely then follows that Wheezy users who do not use Exim, or
> even have it installed, are not at risk?
No. The bug is in the most basic C library. I would assume that all
systems with a vulnerable libc are at risk and update as soon as
possible.
J.
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