Hi,

On Sun, Sep 06, 2026 at 09:02:48PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Source: zlib
> Version: 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.2-1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security upstream
> Justification: user security hole
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team 
> <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The following vulnerability was published for zlib.
> 
> CVE-2026-85091[0]:
> | 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.
> 
> 
> If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
> CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.
> 
> For further information see:
> 
> [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-85091
>     https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-85091
> [1] https://gist.github.com/thesmartshadow/e0b9481792afb7c31e86fee1ff084490
> [2] 
> https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/e3dc0a85b7032e98380dec011bc8f2c2ee0d8fca

FWIW, [2] might not be correct, can you check with upstream?

Regards,
Salvatore

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