Heroku Behind the Curtain: Patching the glibc Security Hole

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If you’re a developer, it’s unlikely you’ve ever said "I wish I could spend a whole day patching critical security holes in my infrastructure!" (If you do, we’re hiring). And if you’re running a business, it’s unlikely you’ve ever said “Yes! I would like my developers to lose a day’s worth of feature-building on security patches!”.

At Heroku, we believe you shouldn’t have to spend the time required to patch, test, and deploy security fixes. Because of that, some of Heroku’s most important features are ones you never see: we keep our platform reliable and secure for your apps so you don’t have to.

Recently Google Security and Red Hat both discovered a high severity bug in a...


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