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Untriaged
created 22 hours ago
gethostbyaddr and gethostbyaddr_r return invalid DNS hostnames

Calling gethostbyaddr or gethostbyaddr_r with a configured nsswitch.conf that specifies the library's DNS backend in the GNU C library version 2.34 to version 2.43 could result in an invalid DNS hostname being returned to the caller in violation of the DNS specification.

Affected products

glibc
  • =<2.43

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pkgs.mtrace

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