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amlweems··on Machine Learning Tutorial
Author here: If you're unfamiliar with machine learning, this post gives a neat example of machine learning on binary data.

If you're familiar, jump straight to our technical challenge at https://mlb.praetorian.com.

amlweems··on CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow
Qualys Security Advisory: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9

Lots of info about their discovery. Apparently they developed a PoC exploit. They've also included a pretty short test program to determine if a system is vulnerable or not.

Here's a gist of the test (copied from their advisory): https://gist.github.com/amlweems/6e78d03810548b4867d6