CVE-2021-3520

critical

Description

There's a flaw in lz4. An attacker who submits a crafted file to an application linked with lz4 may be able to trigger an integer overflow, leading to calling of memmove() on a negative size argument, causing an out-of-bounds write and/or a crash. The greatest impact of this flaw is to availability, with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity as well.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0005/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1954559

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-06-02

Updated: 2024-06-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical