CVE-2022-49078

lz4: fix LZ4_decompress_safe_partial read out of bound

High · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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]/

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00283 · 19.7th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:54Z
    lz4: fix LZ4_decompress_safe_partial read out of bound
    cvelistv5