Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød )
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-03-12T16:46:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
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. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11