High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-16985
CVE-2018-16985
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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References
1- github.com/inikep/lizard/issues/18nvdExploitVendor Advisory
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