CVE-2002-0059

Public Date:
2002-03-09
Bugzilla:
1616731: CVE-2002-0059 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2002-0059 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Powertools 6.2 RHSA-2002:027 2002-03-11
Red Hat Linux 6.2 RHSA-2002:026 2002-03-11
Red Hat Linux 7.2 RHSA-2002:026 2002-03-11
Red Hat Powertools 7.0 RHSA-2002:027 2002-03-11
Red Hat Linux 7.0 RHSA-2002:026 2002-03-11
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RHSA-2002:026 2002-03-11
Red Hat Powertools 7.1 RHSA-2002:027 2002-03-11

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