Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2005-2096 to the following vulnerability: 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. References: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482949/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482950/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482505/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482503/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482571/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482601/100/0/threaded https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162391 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-016.htm http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3616065-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9916286-patch.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-740 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-797 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1026 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162680 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:16.zlib.asc http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-05.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-18.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/421411/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/421411/100/0/threaded http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:112 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:196 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:070 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-569.html ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.6/SCOSA-2006.6.txt http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101989-1 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-148-1 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-151-3 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/680620 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14162 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/0978 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0144 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1267 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1262 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1542 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014398 http://secunia.com/advisories/15949 http://secunia.com/advisories/18406 http://secunia.com/advisories/18377 http://secunia.com/advisories/17054 http://secunia.com/advisories/17225 http://secunia.com/advisories/17236 http://secunia.com/advisories/17326 http://secunia.com/advisories/17516 http://secunia.com/advisories/19550 http://secunia.com/advisories/18507 http://secunia.com/advisories/19597 http://secunia.com/advisories/24788 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24064
This was addressed via: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2005:569) Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.0 (RHEL v.4 AS) (RHSA-2008:0264) Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 4.2 (RHEL v.3 AS) (RHSA-2008:0525) Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 4.2 (RHEL v.4 AS) (RHSA-2008:0525) Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.1 (RHEL v.4 AS) (RHSA-2008:0629)