Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:50:09 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Frank de Bot <freebsd@searchy.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Libz Message-ID: <E39C8AA2-6A46-4893-A59D-00112F69A4B4@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <42CD9F1C.40003@searchy.nl> References: <42CD9F1C.40003@searchy.nl>
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On Jul 7, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Frank de Bot wrote: > Recently a bug was discoverd which affected various unix platforms > including FreeBSD. ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/ > advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:16.zlib.asc ) > > But it say it only affects the 5.x releases and not the 4. Is it > true only the 5.x releases are affected? (I think it rather odd, > because libz is pretty 'universal' I believe FreeBSD-4.x ships with zlib-1.1.x, whereas the security problem described above affects only the zlib-1.2.x branch found in FreeBSD-5, Linux, and elsewhere. I seem to recall Colin Percival saying as much, but you can double-check with the security officer if you like... -- -Chuck
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