CVE-2004-0797 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ZLib compression library, specifically affecting versions 1.2.x. The flaw resides in the error handling of the inflate and inflateBack functions, which can lead to an application crash. This vulnerability has a low severity score (CVSS 2.1) due to its local attack vector and limited impact, resulting only in a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available, although it has garnered some community discussion on platforms like GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:zlib:zlib:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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