Advisories ยป MGASA-2022-0328

Updated zlib packages fix security vulnerability

Publication 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

SRPMS

8/core