Libz

[Charles Swiger]

On Jul 7, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Frank de Bot wrote:
> Recently a bug was discoverd which affected various unix platforms  
> including FreeBSD. ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/ 
> advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:16.zlib.asc )
>
> But it say it only affects the 5.x releases and not the 4. Is it  
> true only the 5.x releases are affected? (I think it rather odd,  
> because libz is pretty 'universal'

I believe FreeBSD-4.x ships with zlib-1.1.x, whereas the security  
problem described above affects only the zlib-1.2.x branch found in  
FreeBSD-5, Linux, and elsewhere.  I seem to recall Colin Percival  
saying as much, but you can double-check with the security officer if  
you like...

-- 
-Chuck