CVE-2005-1849: Zlib

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

inftrees.h in zlib 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid file that causes a large dynamic tree to be produced.

Affected products

• Zlib Zlib: version 1.2.2 only

Published 2005-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.