CVE-2002-0059

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0059
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-03-15 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2024-02-02 15:16:00 UTC
DescriptionThe decompression algorithm in zlib 1.1.3 and earlier, as used in many different utilities and packages, causes inflateEnd to release certain memory more than once (a "double free"), which may allow local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a block of malformed compression data.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.5 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.6 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.7 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.8 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.9 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.5 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.6 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.7 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.8 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.0.9 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.1.3 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.1 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.2 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.3 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.4 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.5 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.6 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.7 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.8 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.0.9 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.1 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.1.1 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.1.2 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.1.3 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HPSBTL0204-037 HP www1.itrc.hp.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRAKE frontal2.mandriva.com
CERT Advisory CA-2002-07 Double Free Bug in zlib Compression Library CERT www.cert.org US Government Resource
MDKSA-2002:023 MANDRAKE www.linux-mandrake.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#368819 CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
MDKSA-2002:024 MANDRAKE www.linux-mandrake.com
redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-122-1 zlib DEBIAN www.debian.org
HPSBTL0204-030 HP www1.itrc.hp.com
CSSA-2002-015.1 CALDERA ftp.caldera.com
Home - Conectiva CONECTIVA distro.conectiva.com.br
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
HPSBTL0204-036 HP www1.itrc.hp.com
ZLib Compression Library Heap Corruption Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
404 | Caldera CALDERA www.caldera.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 20389 IBM DB2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (7087162)
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