ubuntu · CVE-2004-0797

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Priority: medium Published: 2004-10-20 04:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:34:02 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2004-0797 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (zlib), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The error handling in the (1) inflate and (2) inflateBack functions in ZLib compression library 1.2.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash).

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