CVE-2016-10714

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2016-10714 · Published 27/02/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-10714 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting zsh (zsh).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 82.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 5.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
zsh zsh	`< 5.3`	`5.3`

In zsh before 5.3, an off-by-one error resulted in undersized buffers that were intended to support PATH_MAX characters.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 5.3

5.3

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