AIX 3.x/4.x / Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0 / SunOS 5 - 'gethostbyname()' Remote Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6853/info A vulnerability has been discovered in multiple vendor implementations of the 'gethostbyname' library function, which is used to resolve network addresses. The 'gethostbyname' function fails to implement sufficient bounds checking on data copied...