On 4/20/2022 5:06 PM, Vitaly Provodin wrote:

Recently we (at JetBrains) were faced with the vulnerability issue 
CVE-2018-25032 (zlib before 1.2.12 allows memory corruption…)
It is known that Linux, macOS builds uses system’s zlib but Windows - bundled 
one (by default).
On Linux and macOS users can work around the issue by installing proper zlib on 
their systems.
Are there any ideas for Windows? - the way building (under Cygwin!) with system 
zlib looks unworkable in case if Cygwin is not installed on user's machines.

It looks like after implementing 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8249963 (which also discussed here 
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2020-July/067868.html) 
the resolution of such issues can be shifted to users but what can be done now
Hi Vitaly,

A better forum might be core-lib-dev[1], and build-dev as you already cc'd.

Brad

[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/core-libs-dev

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