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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:NOSUMMARY
Description: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

CVSS Score:
2.1

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 11051
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0797
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11051
Bugtraq: 20040825 [OpenPKG-SA-2004.038] OpenPKG Security Advisory (zlib) (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109353792914900&w=2
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#238678
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678
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
http://www.osvdb.org/9360
http://www.osvdb.org/9361
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://securitytracker.com/id?1011085
http://secunia.com/advisories/11129
http://secunia.com/advisories/17054
http://secunia.com/advisories/18377
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
XForce ISS Database: zlib-inflate-inflateback-dos(17119)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17119
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