Updated zlib packages fix security vulnerability
Publication date: 16 Sep 2022Modification date: 16 Sep 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-37434
Description
zlib through 1.2.12 has a heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in inflate in inflate.c via a large gzip header extra field. NOTE: only applications that call inflateGetHeader are affected. Some common applications bundle the affected zlib source code but may be unable to call inflateGetHeader (e.g., see the nodejs/node reference). (CVE-2022-37434)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30715
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/09/1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5570-1
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5218
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/JWN4VE3JQR4O2SOUS5TXNLANRPMHWV4I/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-37434
SRPMS
8/core
- zlib-1.2.12-1.3.mga8