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zlib Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16137
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Release Date:
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2005-07-21
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Last Update:
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2005-07-22
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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-2005-1849 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Markus Oberhumer has reported a vulnerability in zlib, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) against a vulnerable application.
The vulnerability is caused due to the insufficient size of the code table declared in inflate.h, and can be exploited to cause an application using the zlib library to crash via a specially crafted input file.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2.2. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 1.2.3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Markus Oberhumer
Changelog:
2005-07-22: Vendor issues fixed version. Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
Debian:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-763
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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. zlib "inftrees.c" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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2. zlib Denial of Service Vulnerability
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