Admins Urged to Patch Linux Now as 'Ghost' Bug Emerges
"Security experts are warning of yet another potentially major vulnerability in Linux systems, which could allow hackers to take remote control of a system.
The flaw – assigned CVE-2015-0235 – was dubbed ‘GHOST’ by the Qualys researchers who discovered it during a code audit, as it relates to a buffer overflow affecting the gethostbyname functions in the GNU C Library (glibc)."