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Coming up this week, we will be talking to John Marino about his work on the ports-mgmt utility “Synth” and the cross-pollination between DragonFly and FreeBSD. That plus the latest news and your email here on This episode was brought to you by Headlines glibc and the BSDs (https://blog.des.no/2016/02/freebsd-and-cve-2015-7547/) You have likely already heard about CVE-2015-7547 (https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7547) “A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the libresolv library performed dual A/AAAA DNS queries. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted DNS response which could cause libresolv to crash or, potentially, execute code with the permissions of the user running the library.” “Note: this issue is only exposed when libresolv is called from the nss_dns NSS service module.” More details from Google’s Online Security team blog (https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ca/2016/02/cve-2015-7547-glibc-getaddrinfo-stack.html) “Naturally, people have started asking whet