# GHOST –Another scary vulnerability that needs your attention!

**URL:** <https://community.open-emr.org/t/ghost-another-scary-vulnerability-that-needs-your-attention/6905>\
**Category:** OpenEMR Development\
**Created:** [February 7, 2015, 6:01am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/ghost-another-scary-vulnerability-that-needs-your-attention/6905 "2015-02-07T06:01:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 6:01am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/ghost-another-scary-vulnerability-that-needs-your-attention/6905/1 "2015-02-07T06:01:04Z")

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**[visolveemr](https://sourceforge.net/u/visolveemr/)** wrote on [Saturday, February 07, 2015](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/b0b5014c/#d28b):

On January 27th 2015 the GHOST vulnerability was revealed to the public and has been assigned CVE-2015-0235 (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). The vulnerability is a buffer overflow bug in the glibc’s GetHost function. This is why it is called as the GHOST vulnerability.

For more detail [Click Here](http://www.visolve.com/knowledge-hub/articles/ghost-vulnerability.php)

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