Bug 622781

Summary:	zlib has fence-post error in adler32_combine
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Martin Poole <mpoole>
Component:	zlib	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	azelinka, jwest, psklenar, rdassen, rvokal, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	622779	Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-07-13 08:38:34 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	658636, 697582

Description Martin Poole 2010-08-10 12:09:55 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #622779 +++

Description of problem:

zlib as shipped has a fence-post error in the adler32_combine routine which can occasionally result in an incorrect checksum being calculated

This has been corrected in zlib-1.2.4

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

zlib-1.2.3-3


upstream changelog simply reads

  "- Fix bug in adler32_combine() [Zhu]"


--- Additional comment from mpoole on 2010-08-10 08:07:35 EDT ---

Created an attachment (id=437860)
patch for adler32_combine bug

Comment 3 Suzanne Logcher 2011-02-15 21:41:47 UTC

This issue was proposed for RHEL 6.1 FasTrack but did not get resolved in time.
It has been moved to RHEL 6.2 FasTrack.

Comment 5 Suzanne Logcher 2011-02-15 22:05:14 UTC

This issue was proposed for RHEL 6.1 FasTrack but did not get resolved in time.
It has been moved to RHEL 6.2 FasTrack.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-13 08:38:34 UTC

An advisory 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 therefore 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/RHBA-2011-0931.html