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<sect2>
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<title>Installation of Gzip</title>
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-<para>A buffer overflow may occur if <userinput>gzip</userinput>
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-encounters a filename over 1020 characters in length. Apply the
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-patch to fix this problem:</para>
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+<para>The following patch fixes a buffer overflow that occurs when a
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+filename is longer than 1020 characters. It does this by inserting a check
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+that the buffer is large enough for the given filename. The program exits
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+with the message "Filename too long" the buffer is not large enough.</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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Gerard Beekmans