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There'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…

Critical CVSS 9.8
CVECVE-2021-3520
First seen2026-10-14 12:16 UTC
Disclosed2021-06-02 13:15 UTC
Last updated2026-10-14 12:16 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

There'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.

In-depth triage

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

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Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD