[Saucy][Trusty][CVE-2014-4611][PATCH 0/1] lz4: ensure length does not wrap

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Fri Jun 27 16:56:44 UTC 2014


WARNING:
  The buglink is missing in these patches!  Whoever is applying
  the patches, please wait for the buglink to be provided!

CVE-2014-2611

Given some pathologically compressed data, lz4 could possibly decide to
wrap a few internal variables, causing unknown things to happen.  Catch
this before the wrapping happens and abort the decompression.

This is a clean cherry-pick of the upstream commit.


Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
  lz4: ensure length does not wrap

 lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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1.9.1





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