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From: "David Xu" <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>
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References: <00d601c1c941$56be3dd0$3028680a@tgt.com> <20020311131442.D77202@rain.macguire.net> <00e101c1c942$b6bfeb60$3028680a@tgt.com> <20020312022651.A14838@fnyx.vmunix.dk>
Subject: Re: zlib overflow problem?
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:40:53 +0800
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how about /sys/net/ppp* ?
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David Xu

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Sune Stjerneby" <sst@vmunix.dk>
To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: zlib overflow problem?


> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:21:30PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > Where did you see that information.  I can not verify your =
statement.
> >=20
> > Here is the RedHat posting.  They don't even mention any changes or =
updates
> > to glibc.
>=20
> The zlib bug is an issue on Linux-systems due to the brokeness of
> glibc malloc.
>=20
> There aren't any changes or updates to glibc because this specific
> issue was resolved within zlib; fixing the double free(), which
> causes a warning on most systems but trouble on glibc-systems.
>=20
> --=20
> Sune Stjerneby <sst@vmunix.dk>
>  - Part of an RFC 1876-compliant network.



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