From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 04:08:26 CDT

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TITLE:
FreeBSD update for zlib

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15959

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15959/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
FreeBSD 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/1132/

DESCRIPTION:
FreeBSD has issued an update for zlib. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct a DoS (Denial
of Service) against a vulnerable application, or potentially to
execute arbitrary code.

For more information:
SA15949

SOLUTION:
Install fixed version or apply patch.

Fixed versions:
2005-07-06 14:01:11 UTC (RELENG_5, 5.4-STABLE)
2005-07-06 14:01:30 UTC (RELENG_5_4, 5.4-RELEASE-p4)
2005-07-06 14:01:52 UTC (RELENG_5_3, 5.3-RELEASE-p18)

Patch for FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-05:16/zlib.patch
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-05:16/zlib.patch.asc

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:16.zlib.asc

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA15949:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15949/

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