Security Advisory

CVE-2002-0059

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-06-25 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 02:35:17

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The decompression algorithm in zlib 1.1.3 and earlier, as used in many different utilities and packages, causes inflateEnd to release certain memory more than once (a "double free"), which may allow local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a block of malformed compression data.

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