So what I figured out so far: This is a quite nasty bug that may or may not affect everything that links against glibc (or eglibc). However the bug was fixed in

So what I figured out so far: This is a quite nasty bug that may or may not affect everything that links against glibc (or eglibc). However the bug was fixed in glibc 2.18 and the advisory [1] includes a test program at the start of section 4. From this Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 12.04 LTS are affected, but not 14.04 LTS. ( Can someone confirm this?) [1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9