USN-148-1 and USN-151-1 fixed two security flaws in zlib, which could be exploited to cause Denial of Service attacks or even arbitrary code execution with malicious data streams.
Most applications use the shared library provided by the “zlib1g” package; however, some packages contain copies of the affected zlib code, so they need to be upgraded as well.
23 July 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
USN-148-1 and USN-151-1 fixed two security flaws in zlib, which could be exploited to cause Denial of Service attacks or even arbitrary code execution with malicious data streams.
Most applications use the shared library provided by the “zlib1g” package; however, some packages contain copies of the affected zlib code, so they need to be upgraded as well.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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