| Name | CVE-2016-9842 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1725-1, DLA-2085-1, ELA-212-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 847274, 924509 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| rsync (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.1.1-3+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 3.1.2-1+deb9u3 | fixed |
| buster | 3.1.3-6 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.2.3-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.2.7-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.3.0-1 | fixed |
| zlib (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5+deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5+deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1 | 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/e54e1299404101a5a9d0cf5e45512b543967f958
Report: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/0/09/Zlib-report.pdf
[wheezy] - rsync <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)