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zlib Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11129
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Release Date:
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2004-08-30
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Last Update:
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2004-10-11
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Popularity:
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15,970 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | zlib 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0797
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in zlib, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct a DoS (Denial of Service) against a vulnerable application.
The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient error handling in the functions "inflate()" and "inflateBack()". This can be exploited to cause a DoS on any application linked to the zlib library.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 1.2.2.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Johan Thelmén
Changelog:
2004-10-01: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
2004-10-11: Updated "Solution" section.
Other References:
US-CERT VU#238678:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678
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