On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:45:11 +1100
Bill Maidment <b...@maidment.vu> wrote:

> -----Original message-----
> 
> > 
> > You can help by testing (or just running ./configure && make check)
> > the latest code available in our Git repository - the latest
> > snapshot tarball can be grabbed here:
> > 
> 
> ./configure
> 
> gives the Warning message
> 
> checking for CVE-2010-0405... bugged
> configure: WARNING: ****** bzip2 libraries are affected by the
> CVE-2010-0405 bug configure: WARNING: ****** We strongly suggest you
> to update bzip2 configure: WARNING: ****** Please do not report
> stability problems to the ClamAV developers!
> 
> I am running on RHEL 6 Beta2 and the version of bzip2 is:
> bzip2-1.0.5-6.1.el6.x86_64

rpm -qip bzip2-1.0.5-6.1.el6.src.rpm
...
Build Date: Thu 03 Dec 2009 03:22:55

That is prior to CVE-2010-0405 bugfix.

> 
> I would have thought RedHat would have fixed their version of bzip2.

I don't know if betas get security updates.
Maybe if you have RHN subscription.

> How does ./configure check bzip2? Is it just by version number?

It checks for a crash. bugged means the testcase crashed.

Best regards,
--Edwin
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