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Fastly Security Research Team

Fastly Security Research Team

Fastly Security Research Team, Fastly

The Fastly Security Research Team focuses on ensuring our customers have the tools and data available to them to keep their systems secure. They analyze and ultimately help prevent attacks at Fastly scale. The team is a group of behind-the-scenes security experts who are here to help you stay on the cutting edge of the ever-evolving security landscape.

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CVE-2015-7547 Buffer Overflow in glibcFastly Security Research Team, The Fastly Security Technical Account Management Team
On Tuesday, February 16th, researchers published details about a new vulnerability in the glibc library, a standard C library. The vulnerability existed in the code used to translate hostnames into IP addresses. Processes that use it are very common across network service providers, such as CDNs. Fastly immediately implemented a security update on affected systems. No customer action is required. Fastly’s service was not impacted.
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