CVE-2009-1391

Description

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00607.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/794-1/

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51062

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273141

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1571

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:157

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user/33635

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/35876

http://secunia.com/advisories/35689

http://secunia.com/advisories/35685

http://secunia.com/advisories/35422

http://osvdb.org/55041

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user/33635

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3