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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: zlib vulnerability and modutils
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:04:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14719.1015891493@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020311234516.GC128921@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20020311234516.GC128921@niksula.cs.hut.fi>  <4394.1015887380@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>


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.

It may be a little more intrusive than you wanted though.

--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-12  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-11 22:56 Keith Owens
2002-03-11 23:45 ` Ville Herva
2002-03-12  0:04 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-03-12  0:08   ` Ville Herva
2002-03-12  9:46     ` Ville Herva
2002-03-12 13:37       ` Ville Herva
2002-03-12  9:48 ` Ville Herva

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