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>> Zlib Library "inftrees" Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Zlib Library "inftrees" Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0978
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2096
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-07-06
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A vulnerability was identified in Zlib, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in "inftrees.c" when decompressing specially crafted data streams, which could be exploited, via a malformed stream embedded within network communication or an application file format, to execute arbitrary commands in the context of applications that utilizes zlib.
Affected Products
zlib version 1.2.2 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to zlib version 1.2.3 :
http://www.zlib.net/
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0978
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-05.xml
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Tavis Ormandy
ChangeLog
2005-07-06 : Initial release
2005-07-22 : Updated Solution
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