A zlib security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-1642 Important: Oracle Linux 8 zlib security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-1642

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-1642.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
zlib-1.2.11-18.el8_5.i686.rpm
zlib-1.2.11-18.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
zlib-devel-1.2.11-18.el8_5.i686.rpm
zlib-devel-1.2.11-18.el8_5.x86_64.rpm
zlib-static-1.2.11-18.el8_5.i686.rpm
zlib-static-1.2.11-18.el8_5.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
zlib-1.2.11-18.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
zlib-devel-1.2.11-18.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
zlib-static-1.2.11-18.el8_5.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/zlib-1.2.11-18.el8_5.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2018-25032



Description of changes:

[1.2.11-18]
- Resolves: CVE-2018-25032

[1.2.11-17]
- Fixed DFLTCC compression level switching issues (#1875492)
- Enabled HW compression for compression levels 1 through 6 (#1847438)
- Fixed inflateSyncPoint() bad return value on z15 (#1888930)

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