K5004 : Security Advisory: zlib buffer overflow - CAN-2005-2096

Security Advisory Description

Note: Versions that are not listed in this article have not been evaluated for vulnerability to this security advisory. For information about the F5 security policy regarding evaluating older and unsupported versions of F5 products, refer to K4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy.

F5 products and versions that have been evaluated for this Security Advisory

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.

Information about this advisory is available at the following location:

<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2096&gt;