CVE-2021-3520

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3520
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-02 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-03-27 16:12:00 UTC
DescriptionThere's a flaw in lz4. An attacker who submits a crafted file to an application linked with lz4 may be able to trigger an integer overflow, leading to calling of memmove() on a negative size argument, causing an out-of-bounds write and/or a crash. The greatest impact of this flaw is to availability, with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity as well.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lz4 Project Lz4 1.8.3 All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Application Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility - All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy 1.14.0 All All All
Application Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Kit 8.8 All All All
Application Splunk Universal Forwarder All All All All
Application Splunk Universal Forwarder 9.1.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
1954559 – (CVE-2021-3520) CVE-2021-3520 lz4: memory corruption due to an integer overflow bug caused by memmove argument MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
CVE-2021-3520 lz4 Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2021 N/A www.oracle.com
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2021 MISC www.oracle.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159288 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for lz4 (ELSA-2021-2575)
  • 178590 Debian Security Update for lz4 (DLA 2657-1)
  • 178618 Debian Security Update for lz4 (DSA 4919-1)
  • 178632 Debian Security Update for lz4 (DSA 4919-1)
  • 179635 Debian Security Update for lz4 (CVE-2021-3520)
  • 198387 Ubuntu Security Notification for LZ4 vulnerability (USN-4968-1)
  • 20354 Oracle Database 19c Critical Patch Update - July 2023
  • 20355 Oracle Database 21c Critical Patch Update - July 2023
  • 20356 Oracle Database 19c Critical OJVM Patch Update - July 2023
  • 239465 Red Hat Update for lz4 (RHSA-2021:2575)
  • 296053 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 35.94.4 Missing (CPUJUL2021)
  • 354329 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for lz4 : ALAS2022-2022-169
  • 354372 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for lz4 : ALAS2022-2022-137
  • 355122 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for lz4 : ALAS2023-2023-015
  • 377421 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for lz4 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0049)
  • 378599 Splunk Enterprise Third Party Package Updates for June (SVD-2023-0613)
  • 378883 Splunk Enterprise August Third Party Package Updates (SVD-2023-0808)
  • 500373 Alpine Linux Security Update for lz4
  • 501753 Alpine Linux Security Update for lz4
  • 504131 Alpine Linux Security Update for lz4
  • 591406 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU GNU/Linux subsystem Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSB-439005, ICSA-22-104-13)
  • 670649 EulerOS Security Update for lz4 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2407)
  • 670716 EulerOS Security Update for lz4 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2474)
  • 670752 EulerOS Security Update for lz4 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2510)
  • 670777 EulerOS Security Update for lz4 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2535)
  • 670801 EulerOS Security Update for lz4 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2559)
  • 730206 McAfee Web Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities (WP-3792, WP-4003, WP-4021, WP-4058, WP-4067)
  • 750011 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for lz4 (SUSE-SU-2021:1613-1)
  • 750021 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for lz4 (SUSE-SU-2021:1647-1)
  • 750092 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for lz4 (SUSE-SU-2021:1825-1)
  • 750198 OpenSUSE Security Update for lz4 (openSUSE-SU-2021:0760-1)
  • 750794 OpenSUSE Security Update for lz4 (openSUSE-SU-2021:1825-1)
  • 904839 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for fluent-bit (12326)
  • 904851 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for librdkafka (12357)
  • 904898 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lz4 (12361)
  • 904992 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lz4 (12561)
  • 940325 AlmaLinux Security Update for lz4 (ALSA-2021:2575)
  • 960088 Rocky Linux Security Update for lz4 (RLSA-2021:2575)
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