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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:51:00 +0200
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@...tannica.bec.de>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
	joerg@...bsd.org
Subject: Re: LZW decompression issues

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:50:22PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 04:38:08AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> > Hi Tavis,
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:42:56PM +0200, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> > > I believe I wrote that patch,
> > 
> > I believe you wrote a different patch, or two:
> > 
> > http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/gzip/Attic/gzip-1.3.5-google-owl-bound.diff
> > http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/gzip/Attic/gzip-1.3.5-gentoo-huft_build-return.diff
> 
> This is not about GNU (g)zip, but the NetBSD/FreeBSD tool of the same
> name. The corresponding NetBSD advisory explicitly lists GNU gzip and
> libarchive as not vulnerable.
> 
> Joerg

I see, apologies for misunderstanding.

Tavis.

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