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		frabcus on Jan 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer ... This might be a good time to sign the promise not to use C/C++ on new projects... http://www.flourish.org/promise/

cozzyd on Jan 28, 2015 [–]

yeah by using python, you will never run into problems like this https://github.com/python/cpython/search?utf8=✓&q=gethostbyn...

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