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CVE-2005-2096

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2005-07-06 Modified: 2026-07-14

Description

zlib 1.2 and later versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted compressed stream with an incomplete code description of a length greater than 1, which leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using a crafted PNG file.

Affected Platforms

Zlib Zlib

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References