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Re: CVE-2026-41992 gzip 1.14 out-of-bounds memory buffer access

medoss_secPublished 2026-08-25

<p>Posted by Solar Designer on Aug 24</p>Hi,<br /> <br /> Paul kindly brought this issue to linux-distros on July 25, but we<br /> failed to handle it correctly, in two ways: we should have moved the<br /> thread to the full distros list because gzip is not Linux-specific, and<br /> we should have kept track of the proposed public disclosure date of<br /> August 1st, when Paul&apos;s oss-security

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Original source: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/569