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| author | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-05-11 15:09:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-05-11 15:09:30 +0000 |
| commit | 6e507556d6130fdc77ce5f4e8ad5cdcf5bfd94f5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c19427fb0888c2fcd4016b5a7303cdcd9642b61 /chapter06/zlib-inst.xml | |
| parent | 7972fe02a9414332d72f39ebcc9fa950e3a879d0 (diff) | |
Applied Zack's patches. Untested at the moment, will do a build in a few minutes.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2555 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/zlib-inst.xml b/chapter06/zlib-inst.xml index 616adb20b..1de4994c3 100644 --- a/chapter06/zlib-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/zlib-inst.xml @@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of Zlib</title> +<para>Zlib has a potential buffer overflow in its gzprintf() function, +that, though difficult to take advantage of, should be taken care of. Do +so by applying this patch:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../zlib-&zlib-patch-version;</userinput></screen></para> + <para>Prepare Zlib to be compiled:</para> <para><screen><userinput>CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC" \ |