Re: zlib vulnerability and modutils

Ville Herva (vherva@niksula.hut.fi)
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:45:16 +0200


On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:56:20AM +1100, you [Keith Owens] wrote:
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> A double free vulnerability has been found in zlib which can be used in
> a DoS or possibly in an exploit. Distributions are now shipping
> upgraded versions of zlib, installing the new version of zlib will fix
> programs that use the shared library.

Is there a patch for the kernel ppp zlib implementation available somewhere?
I'd like to patch the kernels I'm running rather than stuffing a random
vendor kernel to the boxes...

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