Denial of Service (DoS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package zlib (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published8 May 2025
- disclosed6 Jul 2005
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 6 Jul 2005
CVE-2005-2096 (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) 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.