The zlib package

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Package announcement

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:28:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: noreply@freshmeat.net
To: noreply@freshmeat.net
Subject: [fmII] zlib 1.2.3 released (Default branch)

This email is to inform you about the release of version '1.2.3' of 'zlib'
through freshmeat.net. All URLs and other useful information can be found
at

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/zlib/

The changes in this release are as follows:
A potential security vulnerability when decoding invalid compressed
data was eliminated. A potential security vulnerability when decoding
specially crafted compressed data was eliminated. A bug when
decompressing dynamic blocks with no distance codes was fixed. A CRC
check bug in gzread() after gzungetc() was fixed. An error is no
longer returned when using gzread() on an empty file.

Release focus:
9 - Major security fixes

Project added:
Thu, Sep 3rd 1998 14:24 (7 years, 1 month ago)

Project description:
zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself
portable across platforms. Unlike the LZW compression method used in
Unix compress(1), the compression method currently used in zlib
essentially never expands the data. (LZW can double or triple the
file size in extreme cases.) zlib's memory footprint is also
independent of the input data and can be reduced, if necessary, at
some cost in compression.

Trove categories:
[Development Status  ] 5 - Production/Stable
[License             ] OSI Approved :: zlib/libpng License
[Operating System    ] OS Independent
[Programming Language] C
[Topic               ] Software Development :: Libraries, System ::
Archiving :: Compression

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Source and support files

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2             2005-07-18T09:39     415 kB zlib version 1.2.3
 zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz              2003-11-23T16:07     337 kB zlib version 1.2.1
 zlib-1.1.4.ac1.tar.gz          2002-12-07T21:54     364 kB zlib version 1.1.4
 zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz              2002-03-11T10:12     176 kB zlib version 1.1.4

All of these files are also available from /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/zlib/

for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

bash /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/build.sh zlib 1.2.3
The URLs presented above are time-coded and will remain valid until the contents of this directory changes,
at which time visitors following direct links will be presented with the new index instead of the requested content.

Dependents

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 curl                           2006-03-20T02:51          - The curl package
 gcc                            2005-09-28T10:22          - The gcc package
 graphviz                       2005-08-28T09:14          - The graphviz package
 libbt                          2004-07-10T02:40          - The libbt package
 libpng                         2004-12-02T19:31          - The libpng package
 links                          2005-01-23T05:14          - The links package
 lynx                           2004-02-04T07:07          - The lynx package
 openssh                        2006-02-10T21:48          - The openssh package
 php                            2006-01-11T10:42          - The php package

All of these packages are also available from /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/

for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

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