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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-16985

The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.47%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.47% probability · 72th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
lizard project/lizard
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.