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[Full-disclosure] EEYE: Internet Explorer Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow Vulnerability
Internet Explorer Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow Vulnerability Release Date: August 24, 2006 Date Reported: August 17, 2006 Severity: High Code Execution Systems Affected: Internet Explorer 6 SP1 with MS06-042 - Windows 2000 Internet Explorer 6 SP1 with MS06-042 - Windows XP SP1 Overview:...
zlib: Buffer overflow
Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a buffer overflow in zlib. A bounds checking operation failed to take invalid data into account, allowing a specifically malformed...
Gzip Memory Bomb Denial Of Service
This module generates and hosts a 10MB single-round gzip file that decompresses to 10GB. Many applications will not implement a length limit check and will eat up all memory and eventually die. This can also be used to kill systems that download/parse content from a user-provided URL...
CVE-2003-0141
CVE-2003-0141 involves RealOne Player 6.0.11.x and earlier and RealPlayer 8/RealPlayer Plus 8 6.0.9.584 (and related RealPlayer variants) where the PNG deflate algorithm can trigger heap corruption by processing a PNG containing compressed data using fixed trees with length values 286–287, treate...
CVE-2003-0141: Undefined Security Weakness
The PNG deflate algorithm in RealOne Player 6.0.11.x and earlier, RealPlayer 8/RealPlayer Plus 8 6.0.9.584, and other versions allows remote attackers to corrupt the heap and overwrite arbitrary memory via a PNG graphic file format containing compressed data using fixed trees that contain the...