CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2096

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-07-06 Modified 2026-07-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-07-06
Last modified
2026-07-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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 configurations

• zlib zlib 1.2.0 • zlib zlib 1.2.1 • zlib zlib 1.2.2

References