CVE detail

CVE-2014-4608 — CVE-2014-4608

Published 2014-07-03 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.3

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0542

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

92.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the lzo1x_decompress_safe function in lib/lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c in the LZO decompressor in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Literal Run. NOTE: the author of the LZO algorithms says "the Linux kernel is *not* affected; media hype.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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