Buffer overflow in zlib

2005-07-09 Thread José Carlos Carrión Plaza
Dear list members: Anyone knows about the gentoo linux security advisor labeled «GLSA 200507-05 / zlib»? (More information can be founded at http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-05.xml ) The problem is a buffer overflow in zlib that permits the execution of arbitrary code

Re: Buffer overflow in zlib

2005-07-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: Dear list members: Anyone knows about the gentoo linux security advisor labeled «GLSA 200507-05 / zlib»? Yep, we've fixed this in LFS-6.1-pre2 and also the devlopment (trunk) version of the book. But which are the programs of LFS and BLFS that are been

Re: Buffer overflow in zlib

2005-07-09 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:35:41PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On my 6.1-testing system, _nothing_ shows except rsync's modified version of zlib. OT, *why* does rsync do this? I've Googled lots of discussions about making gzip rsync-friendly but it's not clear if this has been implemented, or