Bug#664565: DoS/endless loop in pigz 2.1.6

2013-05-10 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Package: pigz Dear maintainer, Recently you fixed one or more security problems and as a result you closed this bug. These problems were not serious enough for a Debian Security Advisory, so they are now on my radar for fixing in the following suites through point releases: squeeze (6.0.8) - use

Bug#664565: DoS/endless loop in pigz 2.1.6

2012-03-18 Thread Luciano Bello
Package: pigz Tags: security Version: 2.1.6-1 Wolfram Schneider reported a possible DoS in pigz shipped with stable. > there is a possible DoS in pigz 2.1.6 > man bash|gzip|head -c 23456 | pigz -t > ^C > pigz runs now forever ;-( > can you please upgrade pigz? The bug was fixed in pigz 2.1.7 or l