CVE-2004-0797 Information

Description

The error handling in the (1) inflate and (2) inflateBack functions in ZLib compression library 1.2.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash).

Reference

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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252253 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000865 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000878 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109353792914900&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/11129 http://secunia.com/advisories/17054 http://secunia.com/advisories/18377 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-26.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1011085 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:090 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_29_zlib.html http://www.osvdb.org/9360 http://www.osvdb.org/9361 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11051 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.319160 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2043 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17119