question about zlib security patch
Chantal Rosmuller
chantal at antenna.nl
Wed Sep 14 02:54:39 PDT 2005
Dan Nelson wrote:
>In the last episode (Sep 09), Chantal Rosmuller said:
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>>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.
>>
>>
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>Yes, clamav only checks the version number in the header; it doesn't
>actually test the bug.
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Thanks, good to know
Chantal
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