| Name | CVE-2016-9841 |
| Description | inffast.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging improper pointer arithmetic. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1725-1, DLA-2085-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 847270, 924509 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| rsync (PTS) | buster | 3.1.3-6 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.2.3-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, sid | 3.2.6-4 | fixed |
| zlib (PTS) | buster | 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:1.2.11.dfsg-4.1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - zlib <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/9aaec95e82117c1cb0f9624264c3618fc380cecb
Report: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/0/09/Zlib-report.pdf