>From my read of the release announcement, RedHat's RPM
uses zlib dynamically, so upgrading zlib not mozilla
fixes it.  If Mandrake's the same way, this isn't a
security upgrade, *but* 0.98 had some critical bugs
when it was released and is pretty much useless so it
still makes a lot of sense to ship it (or 0.97, but
not 0.98).

--- Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 11 March 2002 11:45 pm, you wrote:
> > Actually, if I'm reading the release notes
> correctly, it also fixes
> > Mozilla's zlib vulnerability.
> 
> 
> I would think that the zlib vulnerability would be a
> "show-stopper", 
> especially given the relatively small effort to fix
> it and the publicity 
> surrounding it.
> 
> -- 
> Hoyt
> 

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