CVE-2004-0797: Zlib

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The error handling in the (1) inflate and (2) inflateBack functions in ZLib compression library 1.2.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash).

Affected products

• Zlib Zlib: version 1.2.1 only

Published 2004-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.