Advisories » MGASA-2022-0124

Updated zlib packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Mar 2022
Modification date: 31 Mar 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2018-25032

Description

zlib before 1.2.12 allows memory corruption when deflating (i.e., when
compressing) if the input has many distant matches. (CVE-2018-25032)
Update to release 1.2.12 for additional bug fixes. See the changelog for
details.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30204
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/24/1
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/25/2
• https://www.zlib.net/ChangeLog.txt
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-25032

SRPMS

8/core

• zlib-1.2.12-1.mga8