vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9841: zlib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 23, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-rsyncgentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-zlib
Title
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