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IBM AIX: zlib_advisory2 (CVE-2022-37434): Vulnerability in zlib affects AIX

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IBM AIX: zlib_advisory2 (CVE-2022-37434): Vulnerability in zlib affects AIX

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/05/2022
Created
07/27/2023
Added
07/27/2023
Modified
07/27/2023

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).

Solution(s)

  • ibm-aix-zlib_advisory2

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