zlib bug

Renato Martini rmartini@cipsga.org.br
Sat Mar 16 22:53:01 2002


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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Andrew McDonald wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:09:45 +0000
> From: Andrew McDonald <andrew@mcdonald.org.uk>
> To: mailing List gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
> Subject: Re: zlib bug
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:10:59PM -0300, Renato Martini wrote:
> >
> > The GnuPG uses the zlib library (release 1.1.3), and the
> > systems affected are "any  software  that  is  linked  to
> > zlib  1.1.3 or earlier", or "data  compression libraries derived from zlib 1.1.3 or
> > earlier may contain a similar bug".
> >
> >
> > The gpg is affected by this bug in zlib?
> > The zlib library inside the GnuPG package or in the CVS will be changed?
>
> Note that, as you are running Linux, it is quite likely that your gpg is
> dynamically linked against the zlib libraries you probably have
> installed on your system. You can check this with, e.g.:

No Linux...

I compile GnuPG Unices releases (SCO OpenServer, UnixWare, Solaris x86 etc etc),
and I compile these packages statically linked with the zlib available
inside the gpg sources.

This is the problem for me.

best regards

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