# The GHOST Vulnerability : What to know

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**Created:** [January 30, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/the-ghost-vulnerability-what-to-know/26621 "2015-01-30T07:12:47Z")\
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The GHOST Vulnerability : What to know

On January 27th, security researchers announced the discovery of a potential security vulnerability that has been nicknamed “GHOST“. \*In short, GHOST takes advantage of an earlier version of glibc that could allow an attacker to cause a buffer overflow, allowing the execution of arbitrary code. This vulnerability is not present in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server …  
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