Linux haunted by Ghost vulnerability

Security researchers have found a vulnerability inherent to a widely used component in most versions of Linux, reports Computer World.

The vulnerability – nicknamed ‘Ghost’ – is found in the GNU C Library (‘glibc’), which is a library that defines system calls. ‘Ghost’ is an appropriate name, as the bug, which dates back to glibc-2.2 released in 2000, was actually fixed on May 21 2013, but at the time was not recognized as a security risk, so wasn’t immediately modified in popular Linux distributions.

Linux haunted by Ghost vulnerability