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.
Since aide is statically linked against the zlib library, it is also affected by these issues. The updated packagages have been rebuilt against the fixed zlib.
29 October 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.
Since aide is statically linked against the zlib library, it is also affected by these issues. The updated packagages have been rebuilt against the fixed zlib.
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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