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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-9842: Vulnerability in RSYNC, Zlib

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-9842: Vulnerability in RSYNC, Zlib

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

The inflateMark function in inflate.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving left shifts of negative integers.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-zlib-1-2-11-0-175-3-20-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-network-rsync-3-1-3-11-4-3-0-1-3-0

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