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Critical 9.4Published Mar 23, 2026

CVE-2026-4738GDAL Bundled zlib (inftree9.c) Pointer Offset Optimization Undefined Behavior Allows Heap Corruption or Remote Code Execution

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Does this affect you?

It affects OSGeo gdal. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in OSGeo gdal (frmts/zlib/contrib/infback9 modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files inftree9.C‎. This issue affects gdal: before 3.11.0.

CVSS
9.4 CRITICAL (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:A/S:P/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:Amber
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-119
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GovTech CSG
NVD analysis
Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated
Mar 24, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
OSGeo gdal
osgeo:gdal (from the name)
before 3.11.0
CNA record

References

References

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