Unchecked Buffer Size Vulnerability in Lizard Compression Algorithm

CVE-2018-11498 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

In Lizard v1.0 and LZ5 v2.0 (the prior release, before the product was renamed), there is an unchecked buffer size during a memcpy in the Lizard_decompress_LIZv1 function (lib/lizard_decompress_liz.h). Remote attackers can leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted input file, as well as achieve remote code execution.

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