RHSA-2022:7106 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: zlib security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · October 25, 2022
Updated · October 15, 2026
Topic
An update for zlib is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
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.