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Posted on 08 November 2022
FreeBSD security notificat=============================================================================FreeBSD-SA-22:13.zlib Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: zlib heap buffer overflow
Category: contrib
Module: zlib
Announced: 2022-08-30
Credits: Evgeny Legerov of @intevydis
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2022-08-09 14:40:35 UTC (stable/13, 13.1-STABLE)
2022-08-30 23:02:48 UTC (releng/13.1, 13.1-RELEASE-p2)
2022-08-30 22:57:49 UTC (releng/13.0, 13.0-RELEASE-p13)
2022-08-09 14:45:04 UTC (stable/12, 12.3-STABLE)
2022-08-30 23:16:45 UTC (releng/12.3, 12.3-RELEASE-p7)
CVE Name: CVE-2022-37434
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including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
zlib is a software library implementing compression and decompression.
It is used in various places in the FreeBSD kernel and userland.
II. Problem 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.
III. Impact
Applications that call inflateGetHeader may be vulnerable to a buffer
overflow. Note that inflateGetHeader is not used by anything in the
FreeBSD base system, but may be used by third party software.
IV. Workaround
No workaround is available, but applications that do not call
inflateGetHeader are not vulnerable.
V. Solution
Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date, and
restart daemons if necessary.
Perform one of the following:
1) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64, i386, or
(on FreeBSD 13 and later) arm64 platforms can be updated via the
freebsd-update(8) utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
2) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-22:13/zlib.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-22:13/zlib.patch.asc
# gpg --verify zlib.patch.asc
b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as
described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>.
Restart all daemons that use the library, or reboot the system.
VI. Correction details
This issue is corrected by the corresponding Git commit hash or Subversion
revision number in the following stable and release branches:
Branch/path Hash Revision
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
stable/13/ 10cc2bf5f7a5 stable/13-n252073
releng/13.1/ 289231c9634a releng/13.1-n250156
releng/13.0/ 77cd23716ffb releng/13.0-n244808
stable/12/ r372370
releng/12.3/ r372460
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
For FreeBSD 13 and later:
Run the following command to see which files were modified by a
particular commit:
# git show --stat <commit hash>
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the hash:
<URL:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=NNNNNN>
To determine the commit count in a working tree (for comparison against
nNNNNNN in the table above), run:
# git rev-list --count --first-parent HEAD
For FreeBSD 12 and earlier:
Run the following command to see which files were modified by a particular
revision, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number:
# svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number:
<URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN>
VII. References
<URL:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-37434>
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-22:13.zlib.asc>
