~Toughbooktalk~

Summary:
This security hole, which impacts many older versions of Linux and some current ones, should be patched as soon as possible.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/critical-l ... TRE17cfd61

Thanks to ajkula66 for the original post about this security hole.

Morgan, thank you for this information.
I like the ending words of the article you linked: "My advice to you is to now, not later today, now, update your Linux system as soon as possible. After patching it, you should then reboot the system. I know for Linux it's rarely needed to reboot, but since gethostbyname is called on by so many core processes, such as auditd, dbus-daem, dhclient, init, master, mysqld, rsyslogd, sshd, udevd, and xinetd, you want to make absolutely sure that all your system's running programs are using the patched code."
Yes, we survived the storm. NJ & NY not as much as expected, home in RI much more. Judy cleared most of the mess yesterday, Saturday it will be my turn to finish up.

I've been patching servers all week over this. Some older ones are impossible to upgrade and are being retired.