Multiple CVEs Identified in zlib 1.2.8 Affecting Compression Functions
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Two vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-9840 and CVE-2016-9841, have been identified in the zlib 1.2.8 library, specifically in the inftrees.c and inffast.c files, respectively. Both vulnerabilities were published on May 23, 2017, and may allow for context-related issues, potentially impacting applications using this version of zlib.
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2017-05-23
CVE-2016-9840 published
2017-05-23
CVE-2016-9841 published
2026-02-18
Information published about CVE-2016-9840 and CVE-2016-9841
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