Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:08:28 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: zlib vulnerability and modutils |
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:04:53AM +0000, you [David Woodhouse] wrote: > > vherva@niksula.hut.fi said: > > Is there a patch for the kernel ppp zlib implementation available > > somewhere? I'd like to patch the kernels I'm running rather than > > stuffing a random vendor kernel to the boxes... > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dwmw2/linux-2.4.19-shared-zlib.bz2 > > That's a backport of the shared zlib from 2.5.6. As it does all its > memory allocation beforehand, I _assume_ it doesn't suffer the same problem.
Thanks. > It may be a little more intrusive than you wanted though.
Quite possibly -- at least considering that some of the kernels I run are still 2.2.x and even 2.0.x...
I'll have a look anyway.
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