[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.1 released for testing

Glenn Randers-Pehrson glennrp at comcast.net
Mon Sep 18 07:09:47 EDT 2006


At 10:09 PM 9/17/2006 -0700, Greg Roelofs wrote:

>> 1.1.x would have to be 1.1.4 to avoid a security vulnerability in  
>> 1.1.3 and earlier.
>
>Yup.  I couldn't remember if 1.1.4 had any known issues of its own,
>though.

It does not detect "too far back" errors.  Maybe that is harmless,
but the solution Mark proposes for 1.2.3.x (substitute zeroes for
the out-of-bounds memory accesses) is better, I think.

Glenn




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