Madrid, July 7 2005 - SecurityTracker has announced the existence of a buffer overflow vulnerability in Zlib, a library in Linux systems used in numerous programs for file compression and extraction.
The overflow in Zlib is in the processing of compressed data streams, in the ˝inftrees.c˝ file. This could allow a remote user to cause denial of service conditions and even execute arbitrary code on affected systems.
To exploit this problem, an attacker would have to create a specially-crafted compressed data stream which, when processed by an application using Zlib, will trigger an overflow in the inflate_table() function and cause the desired effects.
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