Bug 2427826 - CVE-2026-22184 libsurvive: zlib: Arbitrary code execution via buffer overflow in untgz utility [fedora-43]
Summary: CVE-2026-22184 libsurvive: zlib: Arbitrary code execution via buffer overflow...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libsurvive
Version: 43
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Blocks: CVE-2026-22184
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Reported: 2026-01-08 06:55 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2026-10-11 17:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-10-11 17:47:59 UTC
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Description Sandipan Roy 2026-01-08 06:55:10 UTC
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Comment 1 Jonathan Steffan 2026-10-11 17:47:59 UTC
CVE-2026-22184 does not affect libsurvive, so there is nothing to fix in this package.

The CVE is a buffer overflow in zlib's untgz utility. TGZfname() writes out of bounds when an archive name is longer than 1024 bytes.

For libsurvive:
- No untgz code: the tree at 23f0366 has no untgz or TGZfname anywhere, and it doesn't vendor zlib or any zlib contrib files. It only used redist/puff.c, which is Mark Adler's tiny inflate and not part of this issue. That file is also no longer built, as of the latest Rawhide push.
- No untgz in the build: libsurvive links -lz and uses inflate and crc32. The spec doesn't ship or call the untgz binary.
- Fedora's zlib: the build uses zlib-ng-compat, and its -devel package doesn't contain untgz. Any fix for Fedora's zlib belongs in that package, not in libsurvive.


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