ALPINE-CVE-2022-37434

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CVE-2022-37434
Published: 05 Aug 2022, 07:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Aug 2022, 07:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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).

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•zlib

    < 1.2.11-r4 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2 | < 1.2.12-r2

  • alpine•zlib-ng

    < 2.0.6-r0

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