Wednesday, 4 February 2015

[ubuntu] Ghost security hole topic






Hi:
I recently read an article referring to the subject that affects systems running glibc-2.2 or earlier. The news said that Canonical patched all LTS releases back to 10.04. I checked my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine (32bit) by running in terminal(as instructed in the article):

williepabon@williepabon-VGN-N130G:~$ dpkg -l libc6
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libc6 2.15-0ubuntu10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
williepabon@williepabon-VGN-N130G:~$

Does this mean that the library in my machine is not patched yet? So, I ran a s/w update on my machine,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

After that, I rebooted and ran dpkg -l libc6 again, but got the same previous results. Please, advice. Thanks






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