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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022:7813-01 Important Compression Flaw

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
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A critical security patch for mingw-zlib in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has been released to fix vulnerabilities that could compromise system integrity and privacy
An update for mingw-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 flaw found in zlib when compressing (not decompressing) certain inputs (CVE-2018-25032)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory data protection Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact important update compression flaw mingw-zlib

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-25032 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
Source: mingw-zlib-1.2.8-10.el8.src.rpm
noarch: mingw32-zlib-1.2.8-10.el8.noarch.rpm mingw32-zlib-debuginfo-1.2.8-10.el8.noarch.rpm mingw32-zlib-static-1.2.8-10.el8.noarch.rpm mingw64-zlib-1.2.8-10.el8.noarch.rpm mingw64-zlib-debuginfo-1.2.8-10.el8.noarch.rpm mingw64-zlib-static-1.2.8-10.el8.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7813-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7813
Issue date: 2022-11-08

Topic

An update for mingw-zlib is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory data protection Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact important update compression flaw mingw-zlib

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

2067945 - CVE-2018-25032 zlib: A flaw found in zlib when compressing (not decompressing) certain inputs

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