[oclug] Ugly security hole...

[David F. Skoll]

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/security_sources_article-4582.html

This one's nasty -- a bug in "zlib", which is used all over the place.
Worse, some apps include their own statically-linked version of zlib,
so fixing the system library won't help (rsync, anyone?)  Worst of
all, the same bug appears in the kernel -- if you use PPP compression,
you could be vulnerable.

Doh!

Download... compile... install... nosleep...

Regards,

David.

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