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CVE-2026-22184 HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in zlib 1.3.1.2 and earlier allows authenticated users to achieve arbitrary code execution through a buffer overflow in the contrib/untgz utility when processing command-line arguments with excessively long archive names. The vulnerability affects only the standalone untgz demonstration tool and does not impact the core zlib library. No patch is currently available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Zlib Redhat Suse
NVD GitHub VulDB
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-22184
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in zlib 1.3.1.2 and earlier allows authenticated users to achieve arbitrary code execution through a buffer overflow in the contrib/untgz utility when processing command-line arguments with excessively long archive names. The vulnerability affects only the standalone untgz demonstration tool and does not impact the core zlib library. No patch is currently available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Zlib +2
NVD GitHub VulDB

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