Bug 1152157

Summary:	Get rid of calls to gethostbyname()
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Dalibor Pospíšil <dapospis>
Component:	rsyslog7	Assignee:	Tomas Heinrich <theinric>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	6.6	CC:	pvrabec, qe-baseos-security, rsawhill, theinric
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Last Closed:	2016-07-27 08:54:52 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Dalibor Pospíšil 2014-10-13 13:52:07 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1056548 +++

Description of problem:
Calls to gethostbyname() should be substituted using getaddrinfo() et al.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rsyslog-7.4.10-3.el6_6

Steps to Reproduce:
Actual results:
$ grep --include "*.[ch]" -ri 'gethostby' rsyslog/
...
./tools/syslogd.c:    hent = gethostbyname((char*)LocalHostName);

Expected results:
The gethostbyname() function is not used.

Additional info:
The relevant part of the code is also of concern to bug #767527.
Relevant upstream commit:
http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commitdiff;h=209a6d8e

Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2016-07-27 08:54:52 UTC

This Bugzilla has been reviewed by Red Hat and is not planned on being addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and therefore will be closed. If this bug is critical to production systems, please contact your Red Hat support representative and provide sufficient business justification.