Re: Windows binary of "GSview 4.8" contain vulnerable zlib (CAN-2005-2096)
I wrote Sunday, October 21, 2007 2:18 PM:
> Anonymous <farion42@xxxxxxxx> wrote Saturday, October 20, 2007 11:55 AM:
>
>> As a workaround, one could try to manually replace zlib32.dll in a Windows
>> GSView 4.8 installation with the current zlib1.dll version 1.2.3.
[...]
> Unfortunately the maintainer of GSview choose not to reply to my bug
> report which included a question about the source of the ZLIB32.DLL.
The maintainer finally replied to the last of my three attempts to
contact him (very timely, regarding the different timezones we are in):
| I can't do much about it just at the moment. I've had a computer
| motherboard failure and while I've now got a new computer, I haven't
| got all my development tools running yet.
|
| I will update the DLL in the next release. Yes, I compiled the DLL
| myself. There wasn't a precompiled version at the time I started using
| it.
> As long as I cant be sure that the replacement zlib1.dll from zlib.net
> is fully compatible to the ZLIB32.DLL distributed with GSview 4.8 I wont
> give any advice to exchange it.
q.e.d.
Stefan