Description
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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T02:35:17.400Z
Reserved: 2002-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2002-0059
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Status : Modified
Published: 2002-03-15T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627
Link: CVE-2002-0059
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