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Patch to avoid creating undersized hufts table


From: Carl Worth
Subject: Patch to avoid creating undersized hufts table
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:23:40 +1100

Thiemo Nagel reported (to the Debian project) that a specially-crafted
file could cause gzip to segfault or hang. The file is attached below.

Also attached is a patch that addresses the problem. With this patch
attached, gzip will simply report a malformed input file and exit as
desired.

-Carl

Attachment: segv.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: 0001-Avoid-creating-an-undersized-buffer-for-the-hufts-ta.patch
Description: application/mbox

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