Florian Weimer wrote:

>* Debian Bug Tracking System:
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>>The rateup binary in mrtg is not exploitable by the bug in zlib. rateup
>>only uses zlib to compress graphs that it generates.
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>
>Thanks.
>
>Is there any reason why zlib must be linked statically?  If not, you
>should change this, even though it's not a security problem.
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>

Oh, just to add. I guess the reason is that rateup is the only
non-arch-all part of mrtg so static linking makes the executable more
"portable" and self-contained. This doesn't really apply for Debian :)

- Adam



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