On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:38:57AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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 ?
The crash is in gzdirect() and the only call to that function is
through the new codepath, so I doubt that.
Higuita, does the new libxml2 also crash with the old zlib?
> Daniel
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