Vulnerabilities / GHSA-9q5j-jm53-v7vr

critical

GHSA-9q5j-jm53-v7vr

lz4-sys vulnerable to memory corruption via issue in liblz4

Published Modified
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by GHSA.

Description

lz4-sys up to v1.9.3 bundles a version of liblz4 that is vulnerable to [CVE-2021-3520](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3520). Attackers could craft a payload that triggers an integer overflow upon decompression, causing an out-of-bounds write. The flaw has been corrected in version v1.9.4 of liblz4, which is included in lz4-sys 1.9.4.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
cargo::GitHub Security Advisory Rustlz4-sys1.9.4

References

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