CVE-2026-22184
zlib versions up to and including 1.3.1.2 include a global buffer overflow in the untgz utility located under contrib/untgz. The vulnerability is limited to the standalone demonstration utility and does not affect the core zlib compression library. The flaw occurs when a user executes the untgz command with an excessively long archive name supplied via the command line, leading to an out-of-bounds write in a fixed-size global buffer.
Versions it affects
Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-22184 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.
At a glance
- Severity
- High
- CVSS base score
- 7.8 out of 10
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
- EPSS
- 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of scored vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-120
- Published
- 2026-01-07
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