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CVE-2018-16985

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.47% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-09-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2018-16985
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.47%

Original NVD 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.

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