gnu zlib CVE-2016-9842 vulnerability in GNU and Other Products
Published on May 23, 2017

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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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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2016-9842 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

CWE-1335

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
12.13%
Percentile
93.70%

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