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GLSA-200408-26 : zlib: Denial of service vulnerability

low Nessus Plugin ID 14582

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200408-26 (zlib: Denial of service vulnerability)

 zlib contains a bug in the handling of errors in the 'inflate()' and 'inflateBack()' functions.
 Impact :

 An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a Denial of Service attack on any application using the zlib library.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of zlib.

Solution

All zlib users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.1-r3' # emerge '>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.1-r3' You should also run revdep-rebuild to rebuild any packages that depend on older versions of zlib :
 # revdep-rebuild

See Also

http://meta.openpkg.org/global-sitemap.php

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200408-26

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 14582

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200408-26.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 8/30/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:zlib, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0797

GLSA: 200408-26