CVE-2022-37434CriticalMicrosoft CVSS 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2022-37434

Published
May 31, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products7

  • azl3 cloud-hypervisor-cvm 38.0.72-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 cloud-hypervisor-cvm 38.0.72.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 crash 8.0.4-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 crash 8.0.4-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 teckit 2.5.12-4 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 zlib 1.2.12-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cm1 zlib 1.2.12-2 on CBL Mariner 1.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 5 updates

5 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update8.0.4-2
—Security Update38.0.72.2-1
—Security Update1.2.12-2
—Security Update2.5.12-4
—Security Update-

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2022-37434

EchelonGraph score
9.8 CRITICAL
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

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).

Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2022-37434, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)