Linux vulnerability CVE-2015-7547

You might have seen widely reported Linux vulnerability in the media named CVE-2015-7547 reported by Google and RedHat.

https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/cve-2015-7547-glibc-getaddrinfo-stack.html

The SME Appliance is not affected by this vulnerability. The SME Appliance currently uses CentOS 5.x as the base operating system and it is not affected. 

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Steps we have taken to test the Vulnerability 

We have checked SME is not vulnerable by executing the Proof of Concept exploit and confirmed the appliance is not vulnerable.

https://github.com/fjserna/CVE-2015-7547

RedHat has also confirmed that CentOS/RedHat 5.x are not affected by this vulnerability.

“This issue does not affect the versions of glibc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.” See  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7547

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