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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200408-26">
+ <title>zlib: Denial of service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ The zlib library contains a Denial of Service vulnerability.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">zlib</product>
+ <announced>2004-08-27</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
+ <bug>61749</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-libs/zlib" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.2.1-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="le">1.2.1-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ zlib is a general-purpose data-compression library.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ zlib contains a bug in the handling of errors in the "inflate()" and
+ "inflateBack()" functions.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a Denial of
+ Service attack on any application using the zlib library.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to
+ upgrade to the latest available version of zlib.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All zlib users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+
+ # emerge -pv "&gt;=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.1-r3"
+ # emerge "&gt;=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.1-r3"</code>
+ <p>
+ You should also run revdep-rebuild to rebuild any packages that depend
+ on older versions of zlib :
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # revdep-rebuild</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2004.038-zlib.html">OpenPKG-SA-2004.038-zlib</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0797">CVE-2004-0797</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-08-26T19:08:52Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-08-27T05:21:24Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>