question about zlib security patch

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 09), Chantal Rosmuller said:
> 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.

Yes, clamav only checks the version number in the header; it doesn't
actually test the bug.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com