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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:24:00 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Chantal Rosmuller <chantal@antenna.nl>
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Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: question about zlib security patch
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In the last episode (Sep 09), Chantal Rosmuller said:
> Thanks everyone for the advice, I installed the sources and applied
> the patch, so I guess I took care of the zlib security issue The
> clamav error remained though but someone at the qmail rocks
> mailinglist suggested that clamav cannot see that zlib is patched so
> it is safe to ignore the error. To be on the safe side I will post
> the question about the error on the clamav mailing list.

Yes, clamav only checks the version number in the header; it doesn't
actually test the bug.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com