An old inffast.c optimization turns out to not be optimal anymore with modern compilers, and furthermore was not compliant with the C standard, for which decrementing a pointer before its allocated memory is undefined.
External References:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/0/09/Zlib-report.pdf https://docs.google.com/document/d/10i1KZS5so8xDqH2rplRa2xet0tyTvvJlLbQQmZIUIKE/edit#heading=h.t13tvnx4loq7
Upstream patch:
https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/9aaec95e82117c1cb0f9624264c3618fc380cecb
CVE assignment:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/602
Last updated 14 January 2026
The sshagentchanneldata function in PuTTY before 0.68 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large length value in an agent protocol message and leveraging the ability to connect to the Unix-domain socket representing the forwarded agent connection, which trigger a buffer overflow.
A vulnerability was found in gnutls. A stack overflow could occur in opencdk in the cdkpkgetkeyid function. A memory corruption could occur when parsing a maliciously crafted OpenPGP certificate.
References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/51 https://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2017-2
Upstream patch:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/5140422e0d7319a8e2fe07f02cbcafc4d6538732
A vulnerability was found in gnutls. A heap read overflow could occur while parsing maliciously crafted OpenPGP certificate.
References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/51 https://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2017-2
Upstream patch:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/94fcf1645ea17223237aaf8d19132e004afddc1a
Double free vulnerability in the gnutlsx509extimportproxy function in GnuTLS before 3.3.26 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via crafted policy language information in an X.509 certificate with a Proxy Certificate Information extension.
Heap-based buffer overflow in dnsmasq before 2.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response.
Added checks to prevent overflow in rle file.
CVE assignment:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/459
Upstream patch:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/imagemagick.git/commit/?h=debian-patches/6.8.9.9-4-for-upstream&id=2d90693af41a363a988a9db3a91a15f9ca7c7370