Off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs in Compress::Raw::Zlib Perl module before 2.017, as used in AMaViS, SpamAssassin, and possibly other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang or crash) via a crafted zlib compressed stream that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as exploited in the wild by Trojan.Downloader-71014 in June 2009.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2009-06-16T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:13:25.381Z
Reserved: 2009-04-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-1391

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-06-16T23:30:00.203
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2009-1391

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