Mageia alert MGASA-2021-0229 (lz4)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2021-0229: Updated lz4 packages fix a security vulnerability
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Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:34:08 +0200
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MGASA-2021-0229 - Updated lz4 packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0229.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7, 8
CVE: CVE-2021-3520

Description:
An attacker who submits a crafted file to an application linked with lz4 may be able to trigger an
integer overflow, leading to calling of memmove() on a negative size argument, causing an
out-of-bounds write and/or a crash. The greatest impact of this flaw is to availability, with some
potential impact to confidentiality and integrity as well (CVE-2021-3520).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28990
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4919
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4968-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3520

SRPMS:
- 8/core/lz4-1.9.3-1.1.mga8
- 7/core/lz4-1.9.2-1.1.mga7