question about zlib security patch

Yuan Jue yuanjue122 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 07:30:45 PDT 2005


On Thursday 08 September 2005 22:23, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:

> 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 moment?

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.zlib.asc
>
> 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.

Good luck!
-- 
Best Regards.

Yuan Jue


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