Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:08:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:08:39 -0500 Received: from twilight.cs.hut.fi ([130.233.40.5]:56274 "EHLO twilight.cs.hut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:08:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:08:28 +0200 From: Ville Herva To: David Woodhouse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: zlib vulnerability and modutils Message-ID: <20020312000828.GB132950@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mail-Followup-To: Ville Herva , David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020311234516.GC128921@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <4394.1015887380@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <14719.1015891493@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <14719.1015891493@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- v -- v@iki.fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/