Gentoo: GLSA-200408-26 Normal: zlib Denial of Service Risk

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200408-26
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: zlib: Denial of service vulnerability
      Date: August 27, 2004
      Bugs: #61749
        ID: 200408-26


Synopsis
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The zlib library contains a Denial of Service vulnerability.

Background
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zlib is a general-purpose data-compression library.

Affected packages
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     Package        /   Vulnerable   /                      Unaffected
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  1  sys-libs/zlib      <= 1.2.1-r2                        >= 1.2.1-r3

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zlib contains a bug in the handling of errors in the "inflate()" and
"inflateBack()" functions.

Impact
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An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a Denial of
Service attack on any application using the z...
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