CVE-2009-1391
EPSS 18.4%Published: 6/16/2009Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/libcompress-raw-zlib-perlfrom 0, < 2.015-2
- Debian/perlfrom 0, < 5.10.0-23