Debian Security Advisory
DSA-740-1 zlib -- remote denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 06 Jul 2005
- Affected Packages:
- zlib
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2096.
- More information:
-
An error in the way zlib handles the inflation of certain compressed files can cause a program which uses zlib to crash when opening an invalid file.
This problem does not affect the old stable distribution (woody).
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.2-4.sarge.1.
For the unstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.2-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your zlib package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib_1.2.2-4.sarge.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib_1.2.2-4.sarge.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib_1.2.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib_1.2.2-4.sarge.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/lib64z1_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/lib64z1-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/lib64z1-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/lib64z1_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/lib64z1-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib-bin_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zlib/lib64z1-dev_1.2.2-4.sarge.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.