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
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