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 lsb-rpm is statically linked against the zlib library, it is also affected by these issues. The updated packagages have been rebuilt against the fixed zlib.
9 November 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 lsb-rpm is statically linked against the zlib library, it is also affected by these issues. The updated packagages have been rebuilt against the fixed zlib.
Please note that lsb-rpm is not officially supported (it is in the “universe” component of the archive).
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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