From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 17:41:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA4E16A41F for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:41:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4D543D58 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:41:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j88HfY0r014085 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:41:34 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j88HfY6P005814; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:41:34 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AC5B1511FD; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:41:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:41:33 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chantal Rosmuller Message-ID: <20050908174132.GF49084@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4320494D.6030503@antenna.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MZf7D3rAEoQgPanC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4320494D.6030503@antenna.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about zlib security patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:41:42 -0000 --MZf7D3rAEoQgPanC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:23:09PM +0200, Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > Hi everyone, >=20 > I was installing clamav 0.83 on a freebsd 5.4 system and I got the=20 > following error: > clamav configure: error: The installed zlib version may contain a=20 > security bug >=20 > I want to upgrade zlib to solve this but: > - I don't know how I can see what version of zlib I have at the moment? > - I found the following advice on the freebsd site: >=20 > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:18.zlib.a= sc >=20 > according to this I have to do the following: >=20 > # cd /usr/src > # patch < /path/to/patch > # cd /usr/src/lib/libz/ > # make obj && make depend && make && make install >=20 > but I have no /usr/src/lib/libz/ >=20 > Can anyone clarify this for me? Thanks! You will need to either first install the FreeBSD sources (see the handbook for full description of the many ways to do this) or upgrade your FreeBSD installation to the latest security revision, see http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ Kris --MZf7D3rAEoQgPanC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDIHfKWry0BWjoQKURAo1zAKC0kNREByF154fhEvJfN3hfMkP/5ACgvgkB hOxpmiikVm3lTzRKcTQVGpA= =36c4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MZf7D3rAEoQgPanC--