Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:54:34 +0200 From: Chantal Rosmuller <chantal@antenna.nl> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: question about zlib security patch Message-ID: <4327F35A.4060407@antenna.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050909142359.GD84582@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4320494D.6030503@antenna.nl> <200509082309.43229.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <20050908173948.GE49084@xor.obsecurity.org> <200509090813.06887.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <4321328C.6090306@antenna.nl> <20050909142359.GD84582@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Sep 09), Chantal Rosmuller said: > > >>Thanks everyone for the advice, I installed the sources and applied >>the patch, so I guess I took care of the zlib security issue The >>clamav error remained though but someone at the qmail rocks >>mailinglist suggested that clamav cannot see that zlib is patched so >>it is safe to ignore the error. To be on the safe side I will post >>the question about the error on the clamav mailing list. >> >> > >Yes, clamav only checks the version number in the header; it doesn't >actually test the bug. > > > Thanks, good to know Chantal
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