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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 122-1] New zlib & other packages fix buffer overflow



On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:30:09PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> |---- [RHSA-2002:026-35] Vulnerability in zlib library ----
> | kernel: The Linux kernel internally contains several variants of
> | zlib code. However, ppp compression is the only implementation that
> | is used with untrusted data streams. This issue has been patched.
> | New kernel errata packages are included for Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.
> |----------------------------------------------------------

All implementations should be fixed in case they are copied for use
somewhere else.



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