| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2005:584.
Zlib is a general-purpose lossless data compression library that is used
by many different programs.
A previous zlib update, RHSA-2005:569 (CVE-2005-2096) fixed a flaw in zlib
that could allow a carefully crafted compressed stream to crash an
application. While the original patch corrected the reported overflow,
Markus Oberhumer discovered additional ways a stream could trigger an
overflow. An attacker could create a carefully crafted compressed stream
that would cause an application to crash if the stream is opened by a user.
As an example, an attacker could create a malicious PNG image file that
would cause a Web browser or mail viewer to crash if the image is viewed.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned
the name CVE-2005-1849 to this issue.
Note that the versions of zlib shipped with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 2.1 and 3 are not vulnerable to this issue.
All users should update to these errata packages that contain a patch
from Mark Adler that corrects this issue.
Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-584.html
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score:
7.5
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