CVE-2018-16985 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/inikep/lizard/issues/18

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5