CVE-2022-37434 (GCVE-0-2022-37434)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-05 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-30 19:47
VLAI?
Summary
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).
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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