On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:48:29PM +0000, higuita wrote:
> Hi
> 
>       I'm using the libxml2 2.7.7 with zlib 1.2.5 in a 
> slackware64-current system and i'm having crashes in firefox
> and in claws-mail RSS feeder plugin.
> 
>       in both cases i see that libxml2 is called then zlib,
> returning a crash. Downgrading zlib and libxml2 to the last 
> stable slackware release the problem disappears (libxml2 2.7.6
> and zlib 1.2.3).

  http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
  2.7.7
  Bug Fixes: libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler)

[...]
> 
>       So is there any known or new problem of libxml2 2.7.7 with zlib 
> 1.2.5? or should i try to build zlib with debug and report back?
> 

  So 2.7.7 should avoid the bug precisely, but for any zlib more recent
than 1.2.4 (IIRC) 2.7.7 should work, not crash. Are you sure it's not
a problem with an embedded version of libxml2 in your browser ?

Daniel

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