Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.
Date: 2002-03-12 16:45:31
Message-ID: 200203121645.LAA03908@www.wgcr.org
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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:34 am, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> [Charset iso-8859-15 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > As PostgreSQL uses the zlib library (for TOAST?), this is a headsup that
> > a bug has been found in the zlib library that could cause data
> > corruption or a security breach.

> PostgreSQL does not use the zlib library for toast. The
> algorithm used in toast is based on Adisak Pochanayon's SLZ.

Good. I think.

But what _does_ use zlib in PostgreSQL?
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Lamar Owen
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