MySQL Bugs: #73822: bundled zlib woefully out of date

Bug #73822	bundled zlib woefully out of date
Submitted:	6 Sep 2014 9:01
Reporter:	Andrew Hutchings	Email Updates:
Status:	Open	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Packaging	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	All	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

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Description:
MySQL server has a bundled zlib library.  Even in 5.7.4 this is a 9 year old version of zlib now.  Upgrading it will help with your valgrind suppressions and there are some potential (unexploited) security issues fixed in more recent versions.

As a side note, it would be nice for the compiler to detect that the OS has a good zlib and use that instead.  Rather than forcing it.

How to repeat:
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Suggested fix:
Update the source files in the zlib directory