Ansible playbook to test for CVE-2015-0235 ("Ghost")

ghost-test.yml

- hosts: all
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
    - name: copy code
      copy: src=ghost.c dest=/tmp/ghost.c mode=400
      # obtain above code from https://gist.github.com/koelling/ef9b2b9d0be6d6dbab63

    - name: compile code
      command: chdir=/tmp
        gcc -o ghost-test ghost.c

    - name: run test
      command: /tmp/ghost-test
      register: test_results

    - name: show results
      debug: msg="{{test_results.stdout}}"