CVE-2023-6992
MEDIUMCloudflare zlib < 2023-11-16 - Denial of Service via Deflation Algorithm Memory Corruption
Title source: llmDescription
Cloudflare version of zlib library was found to be vulnerable to memory corruption issues affecting the deflation algorithm implementation (deflate.c). The issues resulted from improper input validation and heap-based buffer overflow. A local attacker could exploit the problem during compression using a crafted malicious file potentially leading to denial of service of the software. Patches: The issue has been patched in commit 8352d10 https://github.com/cloudflare/zlib/commit/8352d108c05db1bdc5ac3bdf834dad641694c13c . The upstream repository is not affected.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://github.com/cloudflare/zlib/security/advisories/GHSA-vww9-j87r-4cqh
Scores
CVSS v3
4.0
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
14.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-126
CWE-20
CWE-122
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (1)
cloudflare/zlib
< 2023-11-16
Published
Jan 04, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026