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Medium RLSA-2022:7314 1 CVE

Moderate: zlib security update

Published Nov 2, 2022 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 zlib 0:1.2.11-32.el9_0

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116639