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CVE-2026-85091

HIGH CVSS: 7.4 Published: 2026-09-03 Modified: 2026-09-09

Description

zlib versions 1.3.1.2 through 1.3.2 contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the gz_vacate() function when processing non-blocking gzwrite() operations with stale external buffer pointers. Attackers can trigger the overflow by calling gzprintf() or gzvprintf() after a write stall, causing an unchecked memmove() to write beyond the internal input buffer boundary.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-787

References