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CVE-2022-37434

Zlib · Published August 5, 2022

CVSS v3.1

CRITICAL
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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).

Affected Products

  • Zlib <= 1.2.12
  • Fedora
  • Debian Linux
  • Active IQ Unified Manager

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H