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The gzip vulnerability tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about security flaws in gzip implementations, particularly CVE-2022-30631, a denial-of-service bug in Go's compress/gzip Reader. This uncontrolled recursion vulnerability allows attackers to crash applications by exhausting the stack with malformed archives containing many zero-length compressed files. The tag includes threads about the fix in Go 1.17.12 and 1.18.4, and may cover related gzip security issues, patches, and mitigation strategies for developers and system administrators.
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    Go gzip Reader DoS: CVE-2022-30631 Fixed in Go 1.17.12 and 1.18.4

    A simple, malformed gzip archive can still bring down a Go-based service: an uncontrolled recursion bug in Go’s standard library compress/gzip Reader.Read lets an attacker crash applications by exhausting the stack when parsing archives composed of many concatenated zero-length compressed files...
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