vulnerability

OS X update for zlib (CVE-2016-9840)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 23, 2017
Added
Sep 26, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

inftrees.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging improper pointer arithmetic.

Solution

apple-osx-upgrade-10_13
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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