CVE-2009-1391

CVE-2009-1391

CVE-2009-1391 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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