LinuxandMain.com has helpful details about a potentially dangerous vulnerability that was discovered today. “SuSE and Debian, among other distributions, have issued two security advisories relating to a potentially very sertious security exploit in the zlib compression libraries which are included as both a standalone package in base distributions and in a number of packages that are installed by most users of any Linux distribution distributions.”
“This can possibly be
exploited to run arbitrary code in a program that includes zlib. If a
network application running as root is linked to zlib, this could
potentially lead to a remote root compromise. No exploits are known at
this time.”