Libz

[Kövesdán Gábor]

Frank de Bot wrote:

> Recently a bug was discoverd which affected various unix platforms 
> including FreeBSD. ( 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:16.zlib.asc 
> )
>
> But it say it only affects the 5.x releases and not the 4. Is it true 
> only the 5.x releases are affected? (I think it rather odd, because 
> libz is pretty 'universal'
>
Hi,

Yes, it's true. Only 5.3 and 5.4 are affected. Colin Percival has 
confirmed this on the freebsd-security list.

Cheers,

Gábor Kövesdán