R: [oss-security] GHOST gethostbyname() heap overflow in glibc (CVE-2015-0235)

[linkbc02 <linkbc02 () outlook com>]

|If you try upgrading glibc and the issue goes away, _that_ would be a
|reason to suspect relevance. 

Hi, already done


# rpm -q glibc 
glibc-2.12-1.132.el6_5.2.x86_64
glibc-2.12-1.132.el6_5.2.i686

# yum update glibc


# rpm -q glibc    
glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.5.x86_64
glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.5.i686



# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart


# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE
STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] IMAP ready.
1 login
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000-c
utted-


BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.

* BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.


#dmesg doesn't show anymore segfault and core dump