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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-03-19 00:19:53 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-03-19 00:19:53 +0000
commite59bbf2ec61b1cd77703e49c0f5519f0d41ac50a (patch)
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parent0457205a00ecabf357f9281fc21809c4271af21d (diff)
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New release note: SA-02:18.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml11
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml11
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 6dfa3a9..f088a88 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -1640,6 +1640,17 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:13.openssh.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:13</ulink>.)
&merged;</para>
+ <para>A programming error in <application>zlib</application> could
+ result in attempts to free memory multiple times. The
+ &man.malloc.3;/&man.free.3; routines used in &os; are not
+ vulnerable to this error, but applications receiving
+ specially-crafted blocks of invalid compressed data could
+ be made to function incorrectly or abort. This
+ <application>zlib</application> bug has been fixed. For a
+ workaround and solutions, see security advisory <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:18.zlib.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:18</ulink>.
+ &merged;</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 6dfa3a9..f088a88 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -1640,6 +1640,17 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:13.openssh.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:13</ulink>.)
&merged;</para>
+ <para>A programming error in <application>zlib</application> could
+ result in attempts to free memory multiple times. The
+ &man.malloc.3;/&man.free.3; routines used in &os; are not
+ vulnerable to this error, but applications receiving
+ specially-crafted blocks of invalid compressed data could
+ be made to function incorrectly or abort. This
+ <application>zlib</application> bug has been fixed. For a
+ workaround and solutions, see security advisory <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:18.zlib.asc">FreeBSD-SA-02:18</ulink>.
+ &merged;</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
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