Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : zlib (MDKSA-2003:033)

Richard Kettlewell discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the zlib library's gzprintf function. This can be used by attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly even the execution of arbitrary code. Our thanks to the OpenPKG team for providing a patch which adds the necessary configu...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : : : Vulnerability in zlib library

Update 20 Mar 2002: Added kernel packages for Red Hat Linux 6.2 on sparc64. Updated VNC packages as the previous fix caused another denial of service vulnerability; thanks to Const Kaplinsky for reporting this Update 14 Mar 2002: Updated kernel packages for Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.0 which were...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Vulnerability in zlib library (powertools)

Update 20 Mar 2002: VNC packages updated to fix another denial of service vulnerability caused by the previous update. Thanks to Const Kaplinsky for discovering this issue. The zlib compression library provides in-memory compression and decompression functions. It is widely used throughout Linux...