Denial of Service (DoS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package zlib  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-ZLIB-10078578
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed20 Oct 2004
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Oct 2004

CVE-2004-0797  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The error handling in the (1) inflate and (2) inflateBack functions in ZLib compression library 1.2.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash).