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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Gzip</title>
+<para>Gzip has 2 known security vulnerabilites. The following patch
+addresses both of them:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-version;-security_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>