CVE-2005-2096

Summary

CVECVE-2005-2096
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-07-06 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2022-06-22 16:40:00 UTC
Descriptionzlib 1.2 and later versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted compressed stream with an incomplete code description of a length greater than 1, which leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using a crafted PNG file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Zlib 1.2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.2.2 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Zlib 1.2.2 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.2.0 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.2.1 All All All
Application Zlib Zlib 1.2.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Secunia - Advisories - CVS zlib Vulnerabilities SECUNIA secunia.com
USN-148-1: zlib vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Secunia - Advisories - SCO OpenServer update for zlib SECUNIA secunia.com
USN-151-3: zlib vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntulinux.org
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for lsb-rpm SECUNIA secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Qt: Buffer overflow in the included zlib library GENTOO www.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
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162680 – CAN-2005-2096 zlib buffer overflow FEDORA bugzilla.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
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Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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