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).

Weakness classification

• CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
• CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org
• cve@mitre.org — Patch, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory