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Bug 62052

Summary:	Does the netscape libflashplugin.so use an insecure zlib ??
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Alan Cox <alan>
Component:	netscape	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.3	CC:	kmaraas, rvokal
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Description Alan Cox 2002-03-27 00:45:43 UTC

strings /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so | grep zlib

Doing a primitive check with objdump it appears to be an old version of zlib and
probably one with the holes.

Does anyone know if the netscape folks updated it to the new zlib ?

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-03-27 19:52:17 UTC

Since netscape hasn't updated anything yet, no, they haven't.
Putting in 'needinfo' as the closest thing we have to 'needsomeoneelse'ssoftware'.

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2002-03-27 19:58:04 UTC

Should we pull the netscape 4 package from 7.3 final ? Without a fix its plain
dangerous to go around shipping exploitable web browsers

Comment 3 Alan Cox 2002-12-18 16:48:52 UTC

Killed for 8.0 thankfully

Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2003-04-02 23:04:51 UTC

Should this be closed then?

Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2003-04-23 12:54:29 UTC

Leaving open since the flashplayer shipped with 7.2 and 7.3 is still vulnerable
to this issue.  No exploits for the zlib issue in flashplayer have been spotted.

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2003-06-20 18:32:54 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-026.html