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		yuhong on Feb 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An overhyped GHOST Yes, cellphones and routers are not affected, but this is only because they use BusyBox etc not glibc.

teraflop on Feb 6, 2015 [–]

That's a non-sequitur -- busybox isn't a replacement for glibc. In fact, the busybox package included with Debian is linked against glibc, and I would assume the same is true for most other distributions.

yuhong on Feb 6, 2015 | [–]

Sorry, I should have mentioned uclibc instead.

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