[CVE] zlib (< 1.2.12) memory corruption

Luis Machado via Binutils <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:56:13 +0100

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Hi,

There is a CVE [1] for zlib < 1.2.12 (released march 27th).

GCC currently uses zlib 1.2.11, and binutils-gdb imports the zlib 
directory from GCC. The recommendation is to get it updated to 1.2.12, 
which contains the proper fix [2].

It might not affect gcc/binutils/gdb since the code doesn't seem to be 
using the problematic option Z_FIXED, but it seems like a good idea to 
consider bumping the version of zlib we use.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25032
[2] 
https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/5c44459c3b28a9bd3283aaceab7c615f8020c531