Based on data kindly provided by Mark Adler, I've created Clamav signatures which can be used to detect copies of vulnerable zlib versions. This is useful mainly for discovering statically linked zlib copies in program binaries, which must be patched separately. The Clamav signature database is available form: http://www.enyo.de/fw/security/zlib-fingerprint/ If necessary, updates to these signatures will be announced on the security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list, see: http://lists.enyo.de/mailman/listinfo/security-announce These signatures perform a similar task to the old find-zlib Perl script, but Clamav should be significantly faster. Furthermore, clamscan can look inside certain archive formats used for software distribution (mainly .tar.gz and Debian packages, RPM packages aren't supported at the moment, AFAICS).