Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package realtime-kernel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-REALTIMEKERNEL-9840636
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed26 Jun 2014

Introduced: 26 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-4608  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream realtime-kernel package and not the realtime-kernel package as distributed by RHEL.

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.