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Numeric Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package zlib  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-ZLIB-284695
  • published23 May 2017
  • disclosed23 May 2017
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Introduced: 23 May 2017

CVE-2016-9842  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zlib package and not the zlib package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.

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