[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-544995 ] zlib crash on win32
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Bugs item #544995, was opened at 2002-04-17 00:17
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.2.1 candidate
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andrew Bennetts (spiv)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: zlib crash on win32
Initial Comment:
On Win2k:
>>> import zlib
>>> c = zlib.compressobj()
>>> c.flush()
'x\x9c\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01'
>>> c.flush() # This crashes.
This occurs both from the command line and from IDLE.
I cannot reproduce this on Linux (it just raises a
zlib.error, as you would expect).
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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2002-04-17 00:43
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Andrew, which version of zlib were you using on Linux?
Windows ships with zlib 1.1.4, which is a very recent
release produced by the zlib folks to plug a zlib security
hole. On Linux we don't ship any version of zlib, so you
get whatever zlib happens to be sitting on your box. If
you haven't done something to upgrade your Linux zlib
version, you probably have 1.1.3. Can you check? (And no,
sorry, I don't know how you can check -- but since you're
closer to your box than I am, you've got a better shot than
I do <wink>).
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