CVE-2016-9841 – zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inffast.c

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2016-9841

23 Jan 2017 — inffast.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging improper pointer arithmetic. inffast.c en zlib 1.2.8 puede permitir que atacantes dependientes del contexto causen un impacto no especificado aprovechando una aritmética de puntero incorrecta.. It was discovered that rsync incorrectly handled pointer arithmetic in zlib. An attacker could use this issue to cause rsync to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was d... • http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00127.html •