Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:43:46 +0200 From: Chantal Rosmuller <chantal@antenna.nl> To: Yuan Jue <yuanjue122@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about zlib security patch Message-ID: <43204E22.1010807@antenna.nl> In-Reply-To: <200509082234.50571.yuanjue122@gmail.com> References: <4320494D.6030503@antenna.nl> <200509082234.50571.yuanjue122@gmail.com>
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Yuan Jue wrote: >On Thursday 08 September 2005 22:23, 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.asc >> >>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. > >Good luck! > > Thank you Yuan 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?
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