‘Google and Red Hat Found a Dangerous, Widespread Bug’ – Entrepreneur
David Meyer says, “Engineers at Google and Red Hat independently found an egregious bug in very widely-distributed computer code library known as “glibc”.
The bug, which dates back to 2008, affects hundreds of thousands of devices and programs that use software derived from the GNU free-software project. The products, which range from servers to routers to Internet-of-things devices, are vulnerable when they try to use a certain function to translate web addresses into their underlying, numerical IP addresses.
If an attacker controls the web server or domain name the victim is trying to communicate with, or if someone is intercepting the communications between the victim’s device and the server or domain name, it’s possible to make the victim’s computer crash — or, with some effort, to even insert malicious code in that machine.
Computers running Windows or Mac OS X or iOS or Android should not be affected”.
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