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GLSA-202406-04 : LZ4: Memory Corruption

critical Nessus Plugin ID 200863

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202406-04 (LZ4: Memory Corruption)

 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All LZ4 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-arch/lz4-1.9.3-r1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202406-04

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791952

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 200863

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202406-04.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 6/22/2024

Updated: 6/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3520

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:lz4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3520