9360 : zlib inflate Function Error Handling DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2004-08-30

Description

Zlib contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when the inflate{} function was called for decompression due to insufficient error handling, and will result in loss of availability for the application using this library.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Unknown

Solution

Upgrade to version indicted by the various Linux distribution, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

zlib

1.2.1

References

Security Tracker: 1011085
Secunia Advisory ID: 11129 12396 12400 12402 12447 16526 17054 17288 17645 18377
CVE ID: 2004-0797 (see also: NVD)
CERT VU: 238678
Related OSVDB ID: 9361
Keyword: decompress SCOSA-2005.49
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/507/mp/osr507mp4/osr507mp4.htm ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.6/SCOSA-2006.6.txt ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2004.17/SCOSA-2004.17.txt
Other Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.33/SCOSA-2005.33.txt http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-26.xml
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0055/
Vendor URL: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

Tools & Filters

	14658 14679
Snort	15981

Credit

Johan Thelmén -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 2.1
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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