USN-4246-1: zlib vulnerabilities

zlib vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in zlib

Software Description

zlib – Lossless data-compression library

Details

It was discovered that zlib incorrectly handled pointer arithmetic. An attacker
could use this issue to cause zlib to crash, resulting in a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841)

It was discovered that zlib incorrectly handled vectors involving left shifts of
negative integers. An attacker could use this issue to cause zlib to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-9842)

It was discovered that zlib incorrectly handled vectors involving big-endian CRC
calculation. An attacker could use this issue to cause zlib to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-9843)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: lib32z1 – 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3; lib64z1 – 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3; libn32z1 – 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3; libx32z1 – 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3; zlib1g – 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

Source: USN-4246-1: zlib vulnerabilities

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