Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51361
Category:	Conectiva Local Security Checks
Title:	Conectiva Security Advisory CLA-2004:865
Summary:	Conectiva Security Advisory CLA-2004:865
Description:	The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory CLA-2004:865. zlib[1] is a compression library used by several programs. Due to a Debian bug report[2], a denial of service vulnerability[2] was discovered in the zlib compression library versions 1.2.x, in the inflate() and inflateBack() functions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a denial of service attack on any application using the zlib library. Older versions of zlib are not affected. Solution: The apt tool can be used to perform RPM package upgrades by running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get upgrade' http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ http://bugs.debian.org/252253 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0797 http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CLA-2004:865 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=002004 Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 11051 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0797 Bugtraq: 20040825 [OpenPKG-SA-2004.038] OpenPKG Security Advisory (zlib) (Google Search) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109353792914900&w=2 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2004:865 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000865 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2004:878 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000878 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2043 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-26.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:090 OpenBSD Security Advisory: 20040829 017: RELIABILITY FIX: August 29, 2004 SCO Security Bulletin: SCOSA-2004.17 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2004.17/SCOSA-2004.17.txt SCO Security Bulletin: SCOSA-2006.6 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.6/SCOSA-2006.6.txt http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.319160 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2004:029 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_29_zlib.html CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#238678 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11051 http://www.osvdb.org/9360 http://www.osvdb.org/9361 http://secunia.com/advisories/11129 http://securitytracker.com/id?1011085 http://secunia.com/advisories/18377 http://secunia.com/advisories/17054 XForce ISS Database: zlib-inflate-inflateback-dos(17119) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17119
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