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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-25T04:00:00

Updated: 2002-06-16T00:00:00

Reserved: 2002-02-07T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2002-0059

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2002-03-15T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-02-02T15:16:30.483


Link: CVE-2002-0059

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