National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1391

Overview

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.

Impact

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External Source: XF

Name: perl-compressrawzlib-inflate-bo(51062)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51062

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1571

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: BID

Name: 35307

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35307

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-7680

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504386

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504386

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-794-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-794-1

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:157

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

External Source: MISC

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

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

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200908-07

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35876

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35876

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35689

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35689

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35685

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35685

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35422

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35422

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 55041

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/55041

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:012

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

External Source: MISC

Name: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user/33638

Hyperlink:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user/33638

External Source: MISC

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

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