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USN-6736-1 klibc vulnerabilities
It was discovered that zlib, vendored in klibc, incorrectly handled pointer arithmetic. An attacker could use this issue to cause klibc to crash or to possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841 Danilo Ramos discovered that zlib, vendored in klibc, incorrectly handled memory whe...
USN-5573-1 rsync vulnerability
Evgeny Legerov discovered that zlib incorrectly handled memory when performing certain inflate operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause rsync to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...