CVE-2002-0059
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 9.7%
exploitation probability
9.7%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-015.1.txthttp://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000469http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:022https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8427http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBTL0204-030http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBTL0204-036http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBTL0204-037http://www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2002-014.1.txthttp://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-07.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-122http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/368819http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-023.php