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CVE-2014-4715
medium
Description
Yann Collet LZ4 before r119, when used on certain 32-bit platforms that allocate memory beyond 0x80000000, does not properly detect integer overflows, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Literal Run, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4611.
References
https://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/detail?r=119
https://code.google.com/p/lz4/issues/detail?id=134
http://secunia.com/advisories/59770
http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2014/07/software-vulnerabilities-how-it-works.html
http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/07/i-was-wrong-proving-lz4-exploitable.html