Vulnerability in Paul Marquess Compress-Raw-Zlib Perl Module
CVE-2009-1391
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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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.074 (94.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.074 · newest: 0.074 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Paul Marquess Compress-Raw-Zlib Perl Module — versions 2.001, 2.002, 2.003
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user/33635
- thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user/33635
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51062 (vdb-entry)
- usn.ubuntu.com/794-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/35307 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-07.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35685 (third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)