Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.

IIRC, the issue here is that it was a double free and that it was ONLY
of possible concern in the even that a specific sequence of calls were
made AND a very cleaver hack was available to allow for
uncontrolled/unvalidated input.

While it may be worth noting, I seriously doubt this is a security issue
for PostgresSQL.

Greg



On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 10:46, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:24 am, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > > Updating zlib is strongly recommended by many sources, and a patch is
> > > available.
> 
> > FWIW, I really doubt this is much of a problem for postgresql. It's
> > mainly a problem for applications dealing with untrusted, compressed
> > data (webbrowsers, imageviewers, programs with skins downloaded from
> > the Internet) etc.
> 
> It's probably NOT a big problem; but it IS a bug in an underlying library.
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