Bug 86599 - CAN-2003-0107 zlib buffer overflow
Summary: CAN-2003-0107 zlib buffer overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: zlib
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-26 09:24 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-05-29 08:34:49 UTC
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Description Mark J. Cox 2003-03-26 09:24:11 UTC 
The function gzprintf within zlib, when called with a string longer than
Z_PRINTF_BUFZISE (= 4096 bytes), can overflow without giving a warning.

zlib-1.1.4 and earlier exhibit this behavior. There are no known exploits
of the gzprintf overrun, and only a few programs, including rpm2html
and gimp-print, are known to use the gzprintf function.

The problem has been fixed by checking the length of the output string
within gzprintf. 

This is CAN-2003-0107 and will be RHSA-2003:081
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-03-28 19:32:48 UTC 
Needinfo so I don't have to stare at the duplicate bug.
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2003-05-29 08:34:49 UTC 
Fixed by http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-081.html
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