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Bug in zlib Affects Many Linux Programs

Posted by michael on from the sauce-for-the-gander dept.

SirTimbly writes: "CNET is reporting that there is a buffer overflow problem with zlib in linux, which is used for network compression. Supposedly, someone could remotely cause a buffer overflow through mozilla, X11 and many other programs." The advisory from Red Hat is available.

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  1. Re:Version 1.1.4 fixes the problem by Dimensio · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the site seems to be suffering from the /. effect. Either that or they didn't patch and someone took advantage of the exploit.

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  2. Re:more info please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Its not a buffer overrun. its a double free.

    double free as in beer, or double free as in speech? Is the double free covered by the double GPL?

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