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CVE-2022-49078 (GCVE-0-2022-49078)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:54 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:53
VLAI
Title
lz4: fix LZ4_decompress_safe_partial read out of bound
Summary
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/000000000000830d1205cf7f0477@google.com/ [2] https://github.com/lz4/lz4/commit/c5d6f8a8be3927c0bec91bcc58667a6cfad244ad# [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CC666AE8-4CA4-4951-B6FB-A2EFDE3AC03B@fb.com/
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-27 17:59 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa , < 73953dfa9d50e5c9fe98ee13fd1d3427aa12a0a3 (git)
Affected: 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa , < 6adc01a7aa37445dafe8846faa0610a86029b253 (git)
Affected: 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa , < 9fb8bc6cfc58773ce95414e11c9ccc8fc6ac4927 (git)
Affected: 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa , < e64dbe97c05c769525cbca099ddbd22485630235 (git)
Affected: 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa , < 467d5e200ab4486b744fe1776154a43d1aa22d4b (git)
Affected: 2209fda323e2fd2a2d0885595fd5097717f8d2aa , < eafc0a02391b7b36617b36c97c4b5d6832cf5e24 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.20
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.20 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.189 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.111 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.34 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.20 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.3 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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