CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1391

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2009-06-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs in Compress::Raw::Zlib Perl module before 2.017, as used in AMaViS, SpamAssassin, and possibly other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang or crash) via a crafted zlib compressed stream that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as exploited in the wild by Trojan.Downloader-71014 in June 2009.

Affected configurations

• paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module (<= 2.015) • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.001 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.002 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.003 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.004 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.005 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.006 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.008 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.009 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.010 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.011 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.012 • paul marquess compress-raw-zlib perl module 2.014

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References