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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2022:7106-01 Moderate Security Update

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle's JDK security patch resolves a critical vulnerability related to a denial of service risk for Java application developers.
An update for zlib is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact zlib update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37434 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: zlib-1.2.11-19.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64: zlib-1.2.11-19.el8_6.aarch64.rpm zlib-debuginfo-1.2.11-19.el8_6.aarch64.rpm zlib-debugsource-1.2.11-19.el8_6.aarch64.rpm zlib-devel-1.2.11-19.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: zlib-1.2.11-19.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm zlib-debuginfo-1.2.11-19.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm zlib-debugsource-1.2.11-19.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm zlib-devel-1.2.11-19.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: zlib-1.2.11-19.el8_6.s390x.rpm zlib-debuginfo-1.2.11-19.el8_6.s390x.rpm zlib-debugsource-1.2.11-19.el8_6.s390x.rpm zlib-devel-1.2.11-19.el8_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: zlib-1.2.11-19.el8_6.i686.rpm zlib-1.2.11-19.el8_6.x86_64.rpm zlib-debuginfo-1.2.11-19.el8_6.i686.rpm zlib-debuginfo-1.2.11-19.el8_6.x86_64.rpm zlib-debugsource-1.2.11-19.el8_6.i686.rpm zlib-debugsource-1.2.11-19.el8_6.x86_64.rpm zlib-devel-1.2.11-19.el8_6.i686.rpm zlib-devel-1.2.11-19.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64: zlib-debuginfo-1.2.11-19.el8_6.aarch64.rpm zlib-debugsource-1.2.11-19.el8_6.aarch64.rpm zlib-static-1.2.11-19.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: zlib-debuginfo-1.2.11-19.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm zlib-debugsource-1.2.11-19.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm zlib-static-1.2.11-19.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: zlib-debuginfo-1.2.11-19.el8_6.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7106-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7106
Issue date: 2022-10-25

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 impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact zlib update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2116639 - CVE-2022-37434 zlib: heap-based buffer over-read and overflow in inflate() in inflate.c via a large gzip header extra field

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