Bug 238581

Summary:	careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pavel Kankovsky <peak>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8	CC:	jpazdziora, perl-devel
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=42844
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Description Pavel Kankovsky 2007-05-01 16:36:07 UTC

Description of problem:
Socket::inet_aton() does not the length of data returned by gethostbyname()
before copying it. See the link to PerlBug for details.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.8.8-4 (other versions are affected as well)

How reproducible:
Easily when you LD_PRELOAD a broken implementation of gethostbyname(). :)

Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2008-03-04 08:35:03 UTC

This should be fixed once we move to perl 5.10 -- the fix is already in
upstream's code.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-03-20 09:14:21 UTC

perl-5.8.8-38.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-03-21 22:07:26 UTC

perl-5.8.8-38.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update perl'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2580

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-03-26 17:12:03 UTC

perl-5.8.8-38.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.