UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4715

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4715

    Published: 3 Jul 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-4715

    Summary:

    Details: Yann Collet LZ4 before r119, when used on certain 32-bit platforms that allocate memory beyond 0x80000000, does not properly detect integer overflows, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Literal Run, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4611.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4715, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/676, https://code.google.com/p/lz4/issues/detail?id=134, https://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/detail?r=119, http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2014/07/software-vulnerabilities-how-it-works.html, http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/07/i-was-wrong-proving-lz4-exploitable.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4715

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: lz4

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~r114-2ubuntu1+esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.0~r114-2ubuntu1+esm1

    Affected versions

    0.0~r94-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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