CVE-2021-3520

CRITICAL

Lz4 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1954559
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0005/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 33.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190 CWE-787
Status published
Products (8)
lz4_project/lz4 1.8.3 - 1.9.4
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager
netapp/cloud_backup
netapp/ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_policy 1.14.0
oracle/zfs_storage_appliance_kit 8.8
splunk/universal_forwarder 9.1.0
splunk/universal_forwarder 8.2.0 - 8.2.12
Published Jun 02, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026