• News
• Infocus
• Foundations
• Microsoft
• Unix
• IDS
• Incidents
• Virus
• Pen-Test
• Firewalls
• Columnists
• Mailing Lists
• Newsletters
• Bugtraq
• Focus on IDS
• Focus on Linux
• Focus on Microsoft
• Forensics
• Pen-test
• Security Basics
• Vuln Dev
• Vulnerabilities
• Jobs
• Job Opportunities
• Resumes
• Job Seekers
• Employers
• Tools
• RSS
• News
• Vulns
• Security Research

• info
• discussion
• exploit
• solution
• references

Zlib Compression Library Denial Of Service Vulnerability

The Zlib compression library is reportedly susceptible to a denial of service vulnerability. This vulnerability is caused by a failure of the application to properly handle malformed input during the decompression process.

This vulnerability is reported to exist in version 1.2.1 of the library. Other versions are also likely affected.