Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0797

Title: ZLib compression library inflate/inflateBack DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0797.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Oct 20, 2004
Modified Date Apr 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.23%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0797: The error handling in the (1) inflate and (2) inflateBack functions in ZLib compression library 1.2.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash).

Impacted Vendors

Z
zlib 1
C
cloudflare 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.6/SCOSA-2006.6.txt ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2004.17/SCOSA-2004.17.txt http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252253 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000865 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000878 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109353792914900&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/11129 http://secunia.com/advisories/17054 http://secunia.com/advisories/18377 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-26.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1011085 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:090 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_29_zlib.html http://www.osvdb.org/9360 http://www.osvdb.org/9361 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11051 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.319160 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2043 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17119 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.6/SCOSA-2006.6.txt ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2004.17/SCOSA-2004.17.txt http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252253 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000865 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000878 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109353792914900&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/11129 http://secunia.com/advisories/17054 http://secunia.com/advisories/18377 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-26.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1011085 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:090 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_29_zlib.html http://www.osvdb.org/9360 http://www.osvdb.org/9361 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11051 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.319160 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2043 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17119
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0797 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.