CVE-2005-1849 Information

Description

inftrees.h in zlib 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid file that causes a large dynamic tree to be produced.

Reference

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.6/SCOSA-2006.6.txt http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/16137 http://secunia.com/advisories/17326 http://secunia.com/advisories/17516 http://secunia.com/advisories/18377 http://secunia.com/advisories/19334 http://secunia.com/advisories/19550 http://secunia.com/advisories/19597 http://secunia.com/advisories/24788 http://secunia.com/advisories/31492 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib_1.2.2-4.sarge.2.diff.gz http://securitytracker.com/id?1014540 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-763 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-797 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1026 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-18.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-18.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:196 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:070 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_43_zlib.html http://www.osvdb.org/18141 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-584.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0629.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14340 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-151-3 http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3616065-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9916286-patch.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162680 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21456 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11402