| From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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| To: | teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up. |
| Date: | 2002-03-12 16:46:49 |
| Message-ID: | 200203121646.LAA03912@www.wgcr.org |
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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:24 am, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)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.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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