SB20250227226 - Denial of service in F5 BIG-IP zlib library
Published: February 27, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB20250227226
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9840)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in zlib due to out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted document, trick the victim into opening it, and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.