Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:22:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Chantal Rosmuller <chantal@antenna.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about zlib security patch Message-ID: <20050908152208.GB38838@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4320494D.6030503@antenna.nl> References: <4320494D.6030503@antenna.nl>
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In the last episode (Sep 08), Chantal Rosmuller said: > I was installing clamav 0.83 on a freebsd 5.4 system and I got the > following error: clamav configure: error: The installed zlib version > may contain a security bug > > I want to upgrade zlib to solve this but: > - I don't know how I can see what version of zlib I have at the moment? > - I found the following advice on the freebsd site: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:18.zlib.asc > > according to this I have to do the following: > > # cd /usr/src > # patch < /path/to/patch > # cd /usr/src/lib/libz/ > # make obj && make depend && make && make install > > but I have no /usr/src/lib/libz/ You will need to fetch the FreeBSD source tree first: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE If you still have your installation CDs, you should be able to run sysinstall and just reinstall the src distribution ( Configure -> Distributions -> select 'src', select 'All' ). Then you can apply the patch. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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