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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:39:48 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Yuan Jue <yuanjue122@gmail.com>
Cc:        Chantal Rosmuller <chantal@antenna.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: question about zlib security patch
Message-ID:  <20050908173948.GE49084@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200509082309.43229.yuanjue122@gmail.com>
References:  <4320494D.6030503@antenna.nl> <200509082234.50571.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <43204E22.1010807@antenna.nl> <200509082309.43229.yuanjue122@gmail.com>

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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:09:43PM +0800, Yuan Jue wrote:
> On Thursday 08 September 2005 22:43, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
>=20
> > >>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 momen=
t?
> > >
> > >use pkg_info|grep zlib
> > >
> > >>- I found the following advice on the freebsd site:
> > >>
> > >>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:18.zl=
ib.a
> > >>sc
> > >>
> > >>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/
> > >
> > >maybe you didn't install source code when you installed your FreeBSD. =
You
> > >still can do it using sysinstall now.
>=20
>=20
> > You are right I didn't install the sourcecode, the instructions make a
> > lot more sense now :)
> > one other small question,  pkg_info | grep zlib
> > gave me the following output;
> >
> > jzlib-1.0.5_1       A re-implementation of zlib in pure Java
> > php4-zlib-4.3.10_2  The zlib shared extension for php
> >
> >
> > so no zlib? Why is that ? because I didn't install it with pkg_add?
> sorry, I never try clamav, so I am not sure the exact reason for that err=
or.=20
> Maybe when you install the source code, there is no error anymore :)

The advice was bogus, zlib is not a package on FreeBSD.

> Or, you may need to install this port find_zlib-1.9, which can be found=
=20
> in /usr/ports/security/.

That does something else again..please try not to give bad advice :-)

Kris

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