OSV-2023-1350 Heap-buffer-overflow in inflate

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A heap-buffer-overflow in the inflate function of the zlib library can lead to crashes or potential code execution when processing malicious compressed data.

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Fix
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What is OSV-2023-1350?

OSV-2023-1350 is a memory corruption vulnerability in c-blosc2, published on 23 Dec 2023.

Official description

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=65236

Crash type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1
Crash state:
inflate
uncompress2
uncompress

Which versions are affected by OSV-2023-1350?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including c-blosc2.

PackageAffectedFixed in
c-blosc2 OSS-FuzzAll versionsNone

How do I fix OSV-2023-1350?

No fix has been published for OSV-2023-1350 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is OSV-2023-1350 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of OSV-2023-1350 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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