CVE-2005-2096 (GCVE-0-2005-2096)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-07-06 04:00 – Updated: 2026-07-14 11:44
VLAI
Summary
zlib 1.2 and later versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted compressed stream with an incomplete code description of a length greater than 1, which leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using a crafted PNG file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1026 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/17236 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482505/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
http://secunia.com/advisories/15949 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-797 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20050… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014398 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-151-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482601/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/18507 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/17054 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14162 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-06… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/17225 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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http://secunia.com/advisories/24788 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32706 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/17326 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0978 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482503/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-05.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/19597 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-20… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SCO
http://secunia.com/advisories/19550 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/18377 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/680620 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482571/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/…
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Siemens CADRA Affected: 0 , < V2511 (custom)
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Date Public
2005-07-06 00:00
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