Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200507-05 (zlib)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200507-05. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200507-05 : zlib: Buffer overflow

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200507-05 zlib: Buffer overflow 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...