Library Flaw Puts Applications At Risk
News The buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the open-source "zlib" component, Secunia said in an alert published on Thursday. Using a specially crafted file, an attacker could take control over a computer or crash applications that use zlib, the...
[July 8, 2005, 9:15]
Kerberos Flaw Opens Apps To Attack
News That flaw affects the open source zlib data compression technology. Using a specially crafted file, an attacker could take control over a computer or crash applications that use zlib. Two serious security flaws in a technology widely used for...
[July 14, 2005, 8:45]
Open-source Flaw Threatens Microsoft
News Members of the open-source compression project, Gzip, have posted a list of nearly 600 applications that a detection program has flagged as using the zlib code. As reported earlier this week by ZDNet UK, a flaw in the zlib software-compression...
[March 15, 2002, 8:57]
Security Flaw Hits Linux
News The software bug -- known as a double-free vulnerability -- causes key memory-management functions in the zlib compression library to fail, a condition that could allow a smart attacker to compromise computers over the Internet, said Dave Wreski...
[March 12, 2002, 8:52]
ActivePython (Mac OS X86)
Downloads It includes Python core, core extensions ZLIB and BZIP2 for data compression, bsddb database library, Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, Suite of Windows tools developed by Mark Hammond, including the PythonWin IDE, bindings to the Win32 API, and...
[January 22, 2007, 6:46]
IISxpress For IIS
Downloads Using ZLIB technology IISxpress is capable of compression ratios up to 10:1 on typical Web content while retaining full HTTP standard and client browser compatibility. IISxpress compresses response data on-the-fly to maximize your web server's data...
[May 8, 2007, 19:31]
Flash Optimizer
Downloads It manages to optimize the whole SWF, including curves, zero-objects, and ZLib optimization. Flash Optimizer is a solution, which reduces SWF files size up to 70%, thanks to algorithms of vectors, shapes, morphing, Z-buffer, fonts, and sounds.
[May 14, 2008, 17:01]
UFS Explorer Standard
Downloads It supports physical disks, including USB mass storage devices and set of virtual disks: VMWare, MS Virtual PC, MacOS, DMG (both raw and chunked with ZLIB compression) and plain RAW disks image files.
[September 25, 2006, 18:46]
UFS Explorer Professional Recovery
Downloads UFS Explorer Professional Recovery supports physical disks, USB mass storage devices (including some digital cameras, MP3 players etc.and set of virtual disks: Parallels Workstation, VMWare products, MS Virtual PC, MacOS .DMG (both raw and...
[January 12, 2008, 14:31]
WebGobbler
Downloads This program is under the OSI-certified zlib/libpng opensource license. WebGobbler creates images by mixing random images from the Web. Each created image is unique. Can work as simple image generator, a Web page generator, a wallpaper changer, a...
[May 3, 2006, 16:01]
Flash Optimizer
Downloads Unlike similar software, Flash Optimizer optimizes not just part of your Flash movie, but the whole SWF, including curves, zero objects, and ZLib optimization. Flash Optimizer is a handy software solution for Webmasters, Web designers, Flash...
[March 3, 2008, 15:31]
ActivePython (Mac OS)
Downloads It includes Python core, zlib and bzip2 for data compression, SQLite (2.5-only) and Berkeley DB bindings (bsddb), Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, ctypes (2.5-only, on some platforms) for low-level library access, PyWin32 (Windows-only): a suite of...
[March 14, 2007, 5:31]
Starksoft FreeFTP
Downloads Supports FTPS (FTP over SSL), compression (zlib), bandwidth throttling per FTP site, active port range setting, automatic file integrity checking (CRC32, SHA1, MD5), SOCKS4, SOCKS4a, SOCKS5, HTTP proxy support, direct integration with GnuPGP for...
[January 22, 2008, 2:01]
Apple Security Update 2005-007 (Mac OS X 10.4.2 Client)
Downloads This update includes the following components: AppKit, BlueTooth, CoreFoundation, cups, Directory Services, HIToolBox, Kerberos, loginwindow, Mail, OpenSSL, QuartzComposerScreenSaver, Security Interface, Safari, X11, zlib.
[August 17, 2005, 2:38]
Open-source Bug-hunting Effort To Grow
News New open-source projects added to the bug hunt effort include "zlib", a compression program used in many applications, as well as FreeRadius, an application that provides authentication. A year after its original launch, a US government-backed...
[March 28, 2007, 9:01]
Putting Too Much Trust In Open Source?
News Despite the security problem with his own project's code, Jean-loup Gailly, chief software architect for Vision IQ and the co-creator of the Zlib compression library, stressed that Linux's development process still creates more secure code.
[March 21, 2002, 6:31]
Monitor Linux Routers And Firewalls With MRTG
News MRTG has a number of dependencies as well, the most important being Perl, gd, libpng, and zlib. MRTG, or Multi Router Traffic Grapher, is a popular monitoring and statistics tool for use on Linux platforms.
[August 1, 2002, 8:40]
Ubuntu Takes Early Lead In Open Source Census
Blog Further down the list are packages more end-user oriented packages like gimp, firefox, and zlib compression. They announced it in December, but OpenLogic's census of open source software is now actually open for business.
[April 16, 2008, 14:46]
