Re: [tbox-l] Announce: newer versions of a few Toolbox library packages

[Hans-Gunther B. <han...@rz...>]

On Monday 29 November 2004 23:21, David Clissold wrote:
> Updated versions of the following packages are available in the AIX
> Toolbox:
>
>   Package          Version    Summary
>   -----------      -------    -------------
>   audiofile        0.2.5      A library to handle various audio file
> formats. esound           0.2.34     Allows several audio streams to play
> on a single audio device. expat            1.95.7     A library for parsing
> XML.
>   fontconfig       2.2.2      Font configuration and customization library
>   freetype2        2.1.7      FreeType library
>   gdbm             1.8.3      A GNU set of database routines which use
> extensible hashing. libtiff          3.6.1      A library of functions for
> manipulating TIFF format image files. libungif         4.1.2      A library
> for manipulating GIF format image files. libxml2          2.6.8     
> Library providing XML and HTML support libxslt          1.1.5      Library
> providing the XSLT engine
>   zlib             1.2.1      The zlib compression and decompression
> library.
>
>

Hello,

libtiff 3.6.1 contains several security bugs. Are these corrected in this 
toolbox version? 

libxml2 2.6.15 also fixes a security bug in the xml library. I do not know if 
this bug is also contained in 2.6.8? Does someone on the list know it? By the 
way I tried to compile 2.6.16. It compiles. But running "make tests" in a 
window hangs the window completely after some time (AIX  5.1 with ML07, gcc 
3.3.2 from the toolbox).

Thanks in advance for any answers.
H.G.Borrmann
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