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RE: [Users] Re: [Bugs] FWD: zlib security bug also present in fr

From: Andreas Pretzsch (andypre_at_gmx.de)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 03:38:12 CET


On 14-Mar-2002 Henry Spencer wrote:

[zlib bug]
> Note that I didn't say "eliminates real exposure". It's certainly an
> undesirable flaw. But there is a quick workaround (disable
> compression,
> if you have it enabled), a patch has been published in our mailing
Read it a few minutes ago. There was nothing on the bugs-list,
therefore I posted the message, ignoring the users-list (thought it
won't fit).

> lists,
> and the next release will incorporate it. My tentative decision is
> that
> this doesn't justify an emergency bug-fix release.
ACK.
Not an emergency release, but a serious bugfix-release, patchlevel+=1
IMHO. But it's your decision.

Anyway, I suppose debian will include it, so I won't have a problem
with it :-)

BTW, great piece of software, just beginning to play with it.
And thanks for the fast reaction.

-- 

Bye, Andreas Pretzsch email: andypre_at_gmx.de

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