[SECURITY] bzip2

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue Mar 18 18:19:00 GMT 2008


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I just read that a security problem which has been found in F-Secure
> is also a problem for other packages, namely 7zip and bzip2(*).
> 
> While this is apparently fixed in our 7zip release 4.57 (called 4.5.7
> in the below URL), it's only fixed in bzip2 1.0.5.  We're still at
> 1.0.3.  Any problem to update?
> 

Updated.

I'll update mingw-bzip2 within the next few days.

--
Chuck



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