Debian Security Advisory DSA 122-1 (zlib, various)

The remote host is missing an update to zlib, various announced via advisory DSA 122-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb1221.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 122-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

CVE-2002-0059

The decompression algorithm in zlib 1.1.3 and earlier, as used in many different utilities and packages, causes inflateEnd to release certain memory more than once a "double free", which may allow local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a block of malformed compression data...

CVE-2002-0059

CVE-2002-0059: The decompression algorithm in zlib 1.1.3 and earlier can cause inflateEnd to free memory more than once (a double free), enabling memory corruption that may allow arbitrary code execution via malformed compression data. Affected: zlib up to version 1.1.3 and earlier. Root cause: d...