View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2016-9842 low priority: Ubuntu including 4 source packages (klibc, rsync, zlib, zsync), 61 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 28, released 18, needs-triage 8, ignored 6, needed 1.
The inflateMark function in inflate.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving left shifts of negative integers.