Bug 1402345 (CVE-2016-9840)
| Summary: | CVE-2016-9840 zlib: Out-of-bound pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Andrej Nemec <anemec> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | apintea, asoldano, bbaranow, bkundal, bmaxwell, brian.stansberry, cdewolf, chazlett, csutherl, dandread, darran.lofthouse, databases-maint, dimitris, dkreling, dosoudil, fgavrilo, fjuma, fnasser, gzaronik, huwang, istudens, ivassile, iweiss, jaromir.capik, jason.greene, jawilson, jboss-set, jchaloup, jclere, jdoyle, jondruse, jshepherd, jvanek, lgao, mbabacek, mosmerov, msochure, msvehla, myarboro, nwallace, pesilva, pgier, pjindal, pjurak, plodge, pmackay, ppalaga, praiskup, psakar, pschiffe, pslavice, rnetuka, rstancel, rsvoboda, sardella, smaestri, sstavrev, szappis, tom.jenkinson, trepik, twalsh, vtunka, weli |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | zlib 1.2.9 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2016-12-07 10:11:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1402352, 1503325, 1503326, 1503327, 1503328, 1503329, 1503330, 1503331, 1503332, 1503333, 1503334, 1503335, 1503336 | ||
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Description
Andrej Nemec
2016-12-07 10:03:01 UTC
Created zlib tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1402352] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:1222 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1222 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:1221 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1221 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:1220 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1220 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:2999 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2999 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:3047 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3047 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2017:3046 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3046 Quoting from the report <https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/0/09/Zlib-report.pdf>: > We have identified five areas where code in zlib invokes undefined > behavior in the C standard. Use of this code does not currently > generate buggy binaries, but it is possible that with future compilers > or platforms these latent bugs may manifest in compiled code Using GCC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux supported architectures, the UB described in this flaw does not manifest as a bug. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Satellite 5.8 Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELS Via RHSA-2017:3453 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3453 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2025:8395 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8395 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 Via RHSA-2025:8284 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8284 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 Via RHSA-2025:8280 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8280 |