[Centos] new version of zlib to CenOS 3.3 ?

Wed Feb 23 17:05:21 UTC 2005
Tiago Bahi - VOE INTERNET <web at voe.com.br>

About Clamav
You can use .rpm from DAG
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/clamav/

ZLib
yum install zlib

Nope?

Tiago

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <smj at littleprojects.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Centos] new version of zlib to CenOS 3.3 ?


> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:20:19PM +0100, Ulrik S. Kofod wrote:
>> Should I then install from http://www.zlib.net or is there a way to make 
>> yum get it
>> from CentOS 3.4?
>>
>> I would prefre to install as much as possible via yum.
>>
>> Matt Bottrell sagde:
>> > what version ships with CentOS 3.4?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:35:10 +0100 (CET), Ulrik S. Kofod
>> > <usk at cybersite.dk> wrote:
>> >> I wanted to upgrade my ClamAV but ./configure gave this error
>> >> checking for zlib installation... /usr
>> >> configure: error: The installed zlib version may contain a security 
>> >> bug. Please
>> >> upgrade to 1.2.2 or later: http://www.zlib.net. You can omit this 
>> >> check with
>> >> --disable-zlib-vcheck but DO NOT REPORT any stablility issues then!
> <SNIP>
>
> RH has a backporting policy that puts security patches into previous
> versions.  The reason they do this is to minimize bugs that creep into
> the features added in later versions.
>
> They will very rarely upgrade a software package within a version of
> RHEL.
>
> In short, zlib is probably patched.  The version you have is most likely 
> secure.
> You need to check the vulnerability in question against the RHEL eratta to 
> make sure,
> but if this is the zlib flaw that got many Linux servers a year or so
> ago, then it's been patched in the source for RHEL, and hence CentOS.
>
> Not only that, it probably does not have any bugs introduced by later
> versions.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Shawn M. Jones
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