gzip
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. The GNU Project uses it as the standard compression program for its system.
| Tags | Archiving Compression |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 19 Jun 2012 09:07
Release Notes: CRC16 header checksums according to RFC 1952 are now checked and decoded. A case of accidental interactive input file removal was eliminated. Decompression of mixed compressed and uncompressed streams now works. Double-compression is avoided better. Various other changes were made.
- 22 Jan 2010 21:16
Release Notes: Many changes were made since the last announcement. Most notably, a security vulnerability potentially allowing arbitrary code execution, reported as CVE-2010-0001, was fixed. Many other minor bugs were fixed.
- 13 Jan 2003 10:25
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 12 Mar 2002 02:17
No changes have been submitted for this release.
Recent comments
Re: gzip buffer overflow revision
> I laud the speed with which the buffer
> overflow problem was addressed, but the
> revision.h file has not been altered to
> reflect this change. While this is an
> administrative-only event, it makes it
> impossible to identify which version of
> gzip is in use.
>
> It really needs fixed, guys.
What are you talking about. What version. You can see the version by typing gzip --version.
gzip buffer overflow revision
I laud the speed with which the buffer overflow problem was addressed, but the revision.h file has not been altered to reflect this change. While this is an administrative-only event, it makes it impossible to identify which version of gzip is in use.
It really needs fixed, guys.
jloup
02 Feb 1999 20:16
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