CVE-2005-2096
zlib 1.2 and later versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted compressed stream with an incomplete code description of a length greater than 1, which leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using a crafted PNG file.
Scoring
- CVSS base score
- 7.5
- CVSS vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS probability
- 43.03%
- Published
- 2005-07-06
- Last modified
- 2026-07-14
Affected products
- n/a n/a