Product Errata

RLSA-2022:7106

Moderate: zlib security update

Topic

An update is available for zlib.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

The zlib packages provide a general-purpose lossless data compression library that is used by many different programs.

Security Fix(es):

* zlib: a heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in inflate in inflate.c via a large gzip header extra field (CVE-2022-37434)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Issued: 10/25/2022

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references