CVE-2018-16985

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 v3.0

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

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 72th percentile

Published

2018-09-13

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• inikep/lizard/issues/18

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-16983
• CVE-2018-16987
• CVE-2018-16979
• CVE-2018-16999
• CVE-2018-16975
• CVE-2018-17000