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CVE-2016-9840

CVE

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
2
occurrences
First Seen
February 18, 2026
Last Seen
April 21, 2026
API
Exploited in Wild
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Ransomware Use
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Public Exploits
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Attack Vector
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Vulnerability Overview

Exploitation Activity

Exploitation Intelligence

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 us...

Public Exploits

Checking GitHub for proof-of-concept code…