Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-4715

Title: Yann Collet Lz4 Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-4715.

CWE Category CWE-189
Published Date Jul 03, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.75%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-4715: Yann Collet LZ4 before r119, when used on certain 32-bit platforms that allocate memory beyond 0x80000000, does not properly detect integer overflows, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Literal Run, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4611.

Impacted Vendors

Y
yann_collet 1
L
lz4_project 1

Reference Links

http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/07/i-was-wrong-proving-lz4-exploitable.html http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2014/07/software-vulnerabilities-how-it-works.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59770 https://code.google.com/p/lz4/issues/detail?id=134 https://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/detail?r=119 http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/07/i-was-wrong-proving-lz4-exploitable.html http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2014/07/software-vulnerabilities-how-it-works.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59770 https://code.google.com/p/lz4/issues/detail?id=134 https://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/detail?r=119
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-4715 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.