CVE-2022-49078

HIGH

Linux Kernel 4.20-5.17 - Use-After-Free in LZ4 Decompression

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lz4: fix LZ4_decompress_safe_partial read out of bound When partialDecoding, it is EOF if we've either filled the output buffer or can't proceed with reading an offset for following match. In some extreme corner cases when compressed data is suitably corrupted, UAF will occur. As reported by KASAN [1], LZ4_decompress_safe_partial may lead to read out of bound problem during decoding. lz4 upstream has fixed it [2] and this issue has been disscussed here [3] before. current decompression routine was ported from lz4 v1.8.3, bumping lib/lz4 to v1.9.+ is certainly a huge work to be done later, so, we'd better fix it first. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [2] https://github.com/lz4/lz4/commit/c5d6f8a8be3927c0bec91bcc58667a6cfad244ad# [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 16.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (20)
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.189linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.34linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.20linux
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.3linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.111linux
Linux/Linux < 4.20
Linux/Linux 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa - 467d5e200ab4486b744fe1776154a43d1aa22d4b
Linux/Linux 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa - 6adc01a7aa37445dafe8846faa0610a86029b253
Linux/Linux 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa - 73953dfa9d50e5c9fe98ee13fd1d3427aa12a0a3
Linux/Linux 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa - 9fb8bc6cfc58773ce95414e11c9ccc8fc6ac4927
... and 10 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026