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CVE-2016-9840

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9840

CGA ID

CGA-qp96-8wwr-c2fc

Severity

8.8

High

CVSS V3

Description

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

References

Affected packages

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