Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting madler/zlib package, versions [,1.2.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.19% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MADLERZLIB-2366569
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Oct 2004
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Oct 2004

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for madler/zlib.

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).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1