Invalid Memory Address Vulnerability in Lizard (formerly LZ5) 2.0

CVE-2018-16985 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Lizard (formerly LZ5) 2.0, use of an invalid memory address was discovered in LZ5_compress_continue in lz5_compress.c, related to LZ5_compress_fastSmall and MEM_read32. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

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