zlib vulnerability
Ali Firas discovered that zlib incorrectly handled certain non-blocking write operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
Read at Ubuntu Security Notices
- Vendor
- Canonical
- Product
- ImageMagick / Ghostscript / FFmpeg / libxml2
Why it ranks 14 (Routine)
- Widely deployed vendor product (Canonical)
- Vendor security advisory
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- Ubuntu Security Notices (ubuntu.com)