VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-16985

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-09-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In Lizard (formerly LZ5) 2.0, use of an invalid memory address was discovered in LZ5_compress_continue in lz5_compress.c, related to LZ5_compress_fastSmall and MEM_read32. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references