[bug-notifications] [zlib 0004373]: zlib 1.2.4 breaks wireshark (maybe others too)

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The following issue has been ASSIGNED. 
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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4373 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                hson
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Project:                    zlib
Issue ID:                   4373
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2010-03-26 15:03 CET
Last Modified:              2010-04-02 22:30 CEST
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Summary:                    zlib 1.2.4 breaks wireshark (maybe others too)
Description: 
After upgrading a Solaris 10 system running with current/ I could observe
zlib related problems with wireshark just like reported elsewhere:

FS#18061 - [wireshark] packet capture trouble with latest zlib 
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18061

For now, downgrading to zlib 1.2.3 helped to fix the problem. There are a
couple of related bugs over at the wireshark bug tracker.

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4439
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4606

Ben Walton informally reported suspected zlib 1.2.4 issues with libxml2.
http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/users/2010-March/008635.html
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 (0007770) hson (manager) - 2010-03-28 07:00
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4373#c7770 
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Its not a problem with zlib but with the applications (in this case
wireshark and libzml2)