CVE-2019-17543

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17543
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-17543.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-17543
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
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DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (3)
RHSA (1)
RLSA (1)
SUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2019-10-14T02:15:10Z
Modified
2026-08-18T12:33:23Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

LZ4 before 1.9.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in LZ4_write32 (related to LZ4_compress_destSize), affecting applications that call LZ4_compress_fast with a large input. (This issue can also lead to data corruption.) NOTE: the vendor states "only a few specific / uncommon usages of the API are at risk."

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/lz4/lz4

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/lz4/lz4
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
Show details
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    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:lz4_project:lz4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "1.9.2"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

Other
r117
r118
r119
r120
r121
r122
r123
r124
r125
r126
r127
r128
r129
rc129v0
v1.*
v1.7.3
v1.7.4
v1.8.1.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-17543.json"
vanir_signatures
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        "id":  "CVE-2019-17543-b1728100",
        "signature_type":  "Function",
        "signature_version":  "v1",
        "source":  "https://github.com/lz4/lz4/commit/fdf2ef5809ca875c454510610764d9125ef2ebbd",
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vanir_signatures_modified
"2026-08-18T12:33:23Z"