CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2096

Published: Jul 06, 2005 | Modified: Jun 22, 2022
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

zlib 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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Zlib Zlib 1.2.0 (including) 1.2.0 (including)
Zlib Zlib 1.2.1 (including) 1.2.1 (including)
Zlib Zlib 1.2.2 (including) 1.2.2 (including)

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