It looks like it might only affect anything that is using OpenSSL. My
Exim does use TLS and obviously OpenSSH does. I noticed my Cyrus imap
server was running fine on port 143 but port 993 (secure imap) gave the
same error that Exim did. I had to strace the sshd process to see the
same error.
Adam H. Pendleton wrote:
> I had this problem last night on one of my servers, and it screwed me
> pretty good. I installed the updates, and went to make dinner. When I
> got back my SSH session had timed out. I tried to SSH back into the
> box, no luck. I noticed the glibc banner from Exim, and realized that
> it had hosed up my OpenSSH server. The server is quite a few miles
> away, and I didn't have any other method to get shell access to the
> machine, so I had to make a long drive to perform a reboot. :(
> Needless to say, be careful when installing the RH updates.
>
> ahp
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:03:10 -0400, Patrick Boutilier
> <boutilpj@???> wrote:
>
>> If you are running RedHat 8.0 and apply the latest glibc updates
>> (2.3.2-4.80) you might get the following error. Restarting the Exim
>> daemon fixes the problem.
>>
>> OpenSSH was affected by the same problem as well. RedHat 7.3 doesn't
>> seem to have the problem, at least not with OpenSSH.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> telnet student.ednet.ns.ca 25
>>
>> Trying 142.227.51.33...
>>
>> Connected to Student.EDnet.NS.CA (142.227.51.33).
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> /usr/local/exim/bin/exim: relocation error: /lib/libnss_dns.so.2: symbol
>> __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file
>> libresolv.so.2 with link time reference
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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