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GHSA-gmc7-pqv9-966m
GHSA-gmc7-pqv9-966m
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- May 24, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (4 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3520 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:2854 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2575 url
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3520 url
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1345 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5606 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6407 url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1954559 url
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0005 url
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html url
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html url