Header The latest news and insights from Google on security and safety on the Internet all content wrapper start CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow Posted: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Posted by Fermin J. Serna, Staff Security Engineer and Kevin Stadmeyer, Technical Program Manager Have you ever been deep in the mines of debugging and suddenly realized that you were staring at something far more interesting than you were expecting? You are not alone! Recently a Google engineer noticed that their SSH client segfaulted every time they tried to connect to a specific host. That engineer filed a ticket to investigate the behavior and after an intense investigation we discovered the issue lay in glibc and not in SSH as we were expecting. Thanks to this engineer’s keen observation, we were able determine that the issue coul...