zlib vulnerability

  1. CVE-2026-3381: Update Compress::Raw::Zlib to Patch zlib in Perl

    Compress::Raw::Zlib — the low‑level Perl interface to the ubiquitous zlib compression library — has been flagged in a critical supplier‑chain advisory after versions through 2.219 were found to embed or otherwise use potentially insecure versions of zlib, creating a high‑severity availability...
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  2. CVE-2016-9840: The Zlib Pointer Bug and the Correctness Fix

    The zlib library’s inftrees.c bug tracked as CVE-2016-9840 is a subtle but consequential example of how a tiny, non‑portable C optimization can become a wide‑ranging security headache — it allowed improper pointer arithmetic in zlib 1.2.8 to create undefined behavior that, in downstream...
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