CVE-2018-11498

Summary

CVECVE-2018-11498
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-26 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-07-05 14:52:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lizard Project Lizard 1.0 All All All
Application Lizard Project Lizard 1.0 All All All
Application Lizard Project Lz5 2.0 All All All
Application Lizard Project Lz5 2.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Negative size passed to memcpy resulting in memory corruption (lib/lizard_decompress_liz.h:207) · Issue #16 · inikep/lizard · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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