>Zlib is the OpenSource compression library used in (at least) Linux, BDS and
>Windows.
>
>A bug has been discovered which potentially leaves a system open to root
>exploits.
>
>Patches are available for all major Linux distros and, AFAIK, BSD. You should

BSD users should see http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-07.html#FreeBSD

and

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&selm=a6jbr6%241dds%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw

This also applies to OS-X apparently, an example I've tried gives

[otter:~/Documents/temp] johnmci% ./a
*** malloc[3175]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x443c0; 
This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an 
allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see 
tools to help debug

mind intel targeted buffer overflows work poorly on ppc machines.
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