A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion's share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to attack, said sources in the security ...

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A warning about the security flaw identified Monday in the Zlib compression/decompression library affecting Linux systems (see story) has been broadened to include ...

A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and Unix systems for compression may affect some Microsoft products that also use the code. As reported earlier this week by CNET News.com, a flaw ...

Security researchers are trying to asses how serious a memory corruption bug in the widely used open source zlib data compression library is, after discovering a fix for the flaw issued in 2018 was ...

A developer has achieved the seemingly impossible: fitting a playable, Doom-inspired game entirely within a single QR code by leveraging extreme code minification, Zlib+Gzip compression, and the ...