The gzip home page The home page • • • • • • gzip 1.2.4 may crash when an input file name is too long (over 1020 characters). The buffer overflow may be exploited if gzip is run by a server such as an ftp server. Some ftp servers allow compression and decompression on the fly and are thus vulnerable. See technical details. This to gzip 1.2.4 fixes the problem. The beta version already includes a sufficient patch; use this version if you have to handle files larger than 2 GB. A new official version of gzip will be released soon. Gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for compress. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. It has been adopted by the and is now relatively popular on the Internet. Gzip was written by ([email protected]), and for the decompression code. ![]()
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