CVE-2002-0059

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.

Scoring

CVSS base score
1.33
EPSS probability
33.22%
Published
2002-06-25
Last modified
2026-03-16

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