Bug 24111

Summary:	Deprecate inet_addr, inet_aton
Product:	glibc	Reporter:	Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component:	network	Assignee:	Not yet assigned to anyone <unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	Flags:	fweimer: security-
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.30
Target Milestone:	---
See Also:	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018
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Description Florian Weimer 2019-01-21 07:34:30 UTC

For historic reasons, inet_addr and inet_aton accept trailing characters; see bug 20018.  We cannot change this behavior, but it risks introducing security vulnerabilities into applications.  Applications should use inet_pton or getaddrinfo with AI_NUMERICSHOST instead.