Author Topic: Zlib security flaw leaves Windows AND Linux at risk  (Read 2114 times)

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Re: Zlib security flaw leaves Windows AND Linux at risk
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2005, 04:26:13 am »
Saw some reports about that a few days ago, looks like the effects are more far-reaching than originally predicted.
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Re: Zlib security flaw leaves Windows AND Linux at risk
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2005, 10:05:55 am »
Everything about this I've seen (on mailing lists, ISS's X-force, etc.) indicate that it's a DoS attack, not arbitrary code. :-/

But anyways, I updated it a couple days ago.  I updated everything I felt comfortable with.  :)

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Re: Zlib security flaw leaves Windows AND Linux at risk
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2005, 11:20:46 am »
Incidentally, SharpZipLib, being a C# port of zlib, is not affected by this problem.
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Re: Zlib security flaw leaves Windows AND Linux at risk
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2005, 05:10:48 pm »
Who here posts and reads BugTraq often? I don't.