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UNIRAS Brief - 489/04 - Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory
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UNIRAS (UK Govt CERT) Briefing Notice - 489/04 dated 09.09.04 Time: 14:30
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Title
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Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory:MDKSA-2004:090
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Due to a Debian bug report, a Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in
the zlib compression library versions 1.2.x, in the inflate() and inflateBack() functions.
Older versions of zlib are not affected.
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Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: zlib
Advisory ID:
Date: September 7th, 2004
Affected versions: 10.0
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Problem Description:
Due to a Debian bug report, a Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the zlib
compression library versions 1.2.x, in the inflate() and inflateBack() functions.
Older versions of zlib are not affected.
Once the updated packages have been installed, all programs linked against zlib must
be restarted for the new packages to take effect.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0797
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Updated Packages:
Mandrakelinux 10.0:
a9299193c467df186f5ec74438b7f39e 10.0/RPMS/zlib1-1.2.1-2.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
77e1313ce85f26c83f6b994606dceb5a 10.0/RPMS/zlib1-devel-1.2.1-2.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
bfc9a9419f3c7daf4a226383d6be6ea6 10.0/SRPMS/zlib-1.2.1-2.1.100mdk.src.rpm
Mandrakelinux 10.0/AMD64:
954d58fcaa1576278f8c71de40361d72 amd64/10.0/RPMS/zlib1-1.2.1-2.1.100mdk.amd64.rpm
976edb0aa85913b28ef38b7d5efd2fbd amd64/10.0/RPMS/zlib1-devel-1.2.1-2.1.100mdk.amd64.rpm
bfc9a9419f3c7daf4a226383d6be6ea6 amd64/10.0/SRPMS/zlib-1.2.1-2.1.100mdk.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
All packages are signed by Mandrakesoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrakelinux Security Team by executing:
gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98
You can view other update advisories for Mandrakelinux at:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories
If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
security_linux-mandrake.com
Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Linux Mandrake Security Team
<security linux-mandrake.com>
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