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Re: NIS library code exposure (Unix network exposure)



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> Do you have any daemons that run as root and do networking? Are you
> sure that all of them check the length of the host name before passing
> it to gethostbyname?

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On Linux:
ping [huge host name] works
ftp [huge host name] works
finger [huge host name] works
nslookup [huge host name] ... CRUNCH (Segmentation fault)