Zlib security heads up

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Mon Mar 18 09:43:18 UTC 2002


On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:25:52PM +0000, John Hinsley wrote:
> 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.
> 
The unix VM seems to contains the zlib sources. But it is only used
for decompressing compressed images).

           Marcus

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