Zlib 1.4 Released With More Than One Dozen Security Fixes

Zlib 1.4 is now available for this widely-used compression library. In these AI times, Zlib 1.4 ships with more than a dozen security fixes. Zlib 1.4 incorporates security fixes for buffer overflows, overrunning buffer writes, reading before the start of the input, copying uninitialized memory to the output, reading outside the window, and also several minizip security fixes. In addition to the security fixes, Zlib 1.4 also has several CMake build system updates, Android large file support, documentation enhancements, and a variety of bug fixes. Downloads and more details on the Zlib 1.4 release via zlib.net.

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