[Techtalk] Re: Zlib vulnerability (fwd)

Raven, corporate courtesan raven at oneeyedcrow.net
Tue Mar 12 16:13:37 EST 2002


Heya --

	From an offlist conversation I was having with a friend about
the zlib vulnerability, forwarded with permission:

----- Begin forwarded message -----
> > dynamic linking here. :)
> 	Apparantly me too, since patching it didn't break anything.  
It wouldn't break anything anyway, as statically linked programs 
would not be affected. apt-get or urmpi are your friends. :)

> How do you tell?
You have to know which programs use static linking. Not that many do. 
(Sometimes things like bash or ash do, to stop library compromises 
affecting your root shell, but they wouldn't be using zlib).
----- End forwarded message -----

	So, does anyone here know what actually uses zlib under Linux
that would use static linking?  I've no idea.

Thanks in advance,
Raven

"Sed, sed, awk.  Like duck, duck, goose.  Sync, sync, halt.  It's the
 order of nature."
  -- me, after too long a day at work



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