CVE-2016-9841 describes a critical vulnerability in zlib version 1.2.8, specifically within the inffast.c component, due to improper pointer arithmetic. This flaw affects a wide range of products including Apple, Canonical, Debian, Node.js, Oracle, and Red Hat, among others. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability over a network. Despite its critical severity and high EPSS score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.2.0, < 1.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:zlib:zlib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
42.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
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