Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:09:43 +0800 From: Yuan Jue <yuanjue122@gmail.com> To: Chantal Rosmuller <chantal@antenna.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about zlib security patch Message-ID: <200509082309.43229.yuanjue122@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43204E22.1010807@antenna.nl> References: <4320494D.6030503@antenna.nl> <200509082234.50571.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <43204E22.1010807@antenna.nl>
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On Thursday 08 September 2005 22:43, Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > >>I was installing clamav 0.83 on a freebsd 5.4 system and I got the > >>following error: > >>clamav configure: error: The installed zlib version may contain a > >>security bug > >> > >>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? > > > >use pkg_info|grep zlib > > > >>- I found the following advice on the freebsd site: > >> > >>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:18.zlib.a > >>sc > >> > >>according to this I have to do the following: > >> > >># cd /usr/src > >># patch < /path/to/patch > >># cd /usr/src/lib/libz/ > >># make obj && make depend && make && make install > >> > >>but I have no /usr/src/lib/libz/ > > > >maybe you didn't install source code when you installed your FreeBSD. You > >still can do it using sysinstall now. > You are right I didn't install the sourcecode, the instructions make a > lot more sense now :) > one other small question, pkg_info | grep zlib > gave me the following output; > > jzlib-1.0.5_1 A re-implementation of zlib in pure Java > php4-zlib-4.3.10_2 The zlib shared extension for php > > > so no zlib? Why is that ? because I didn't install it with pkg_add? sorry, I never try clamav, so I am not sure the exact reason for that error. Maybe when you install the source code, there is no error anymore :) Or, you may need to install this port find_zlib-1.9, which can be found in /usr/ports/security/. Good luck! -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue
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