Source: zlib
Followup-For: Bug #1054290
X-Debbugs-Cc: david.dooling+deb...@docker.com, car...@debian.org, Debian 
Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>

On Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:26:54 +0000, I wrote:
> A few packages referenced 'quazip' - a fork of minizip.  Of those, only
> 1 (one) appears to support 64-bit zip files, and it does look like it has
> the vulnerability too.
>
> For 3 (three) of the remaining packages, I'm uncertain whether copied code 
> that
> looks like older versions minizip is in fact vulnerable; those are the
> 'magics++' and 'widelands' packages, where 64-bit zip support appears
> incomplete or missing, and 'gdal', where the code appears to be part of a
> library called 'CPL' that may have shared some lineage with minizip.

Please note: both of those paragraphs I wrote mention 64-bit zipfile support,
because I thought that that could be a prerequisite for the vulnerability (an
integer overflow).  However: I'm not really sure whether that's true or not.

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